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Burnet's Heterobiography of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester  (2008)

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 1680-20002008Liguori Editore2008pp. 159-188

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