Publications

Authors:

Zinato, Susanna

Title:

Burnet's Heterobiography of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Year:

2008

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

The Protean Forms of Life Writing. Auto/Biography in English 1680-2000

Publisher:

Liguori Editore

ISBN:

9788820743802

Page numbers:

159-188

Keyword:

using and abusing of biography; the libertine poet 'transfigured'

Short description of contents:

"Some Passages of the Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester", published in London in 1680 soon after Rochester's death and written by the Scottish Latitudinarian Gilbert Burnet was an immensely popular biography, the earliest attempy to tell the libertine poet's life as a religious parable. The emphasis here is on Burnet's using and abusing of the biographical(-elegiac) frame that becomes the ambiguous meeting ground for biography, confession, theological disquisition/philosophical dialogue, letter-writing, and, above all, pulpit lecturing.

Web page:

http://www.liguori.it/

Product ID:

66739

Handle IRIS:

11562/324481

Deposited On:

March 28, 2012

Last Modified:

November 1, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Zinato, Susanna, Burnet's Heterobiography of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The Protean Forms of Life Writing. Auto/Biography in English 1680-2000 , 2008 , Liguori Editore , 2008 , pp. 159-188

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