Description
About the Author
Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and International Director for the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine), Philip Sidney, and James VI and I, and of Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). He is Assistant Director of the Oxford Francis Bacon, for which he edited volume 1, Bacon's early writings (2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
Reviews
Stewart assesses a vast range of primary material... shining a light on lesser-known historical figures who make fascinating contributions to the rich variety of life-writing. [...] Stewart's study presents a highly readableand richly researched account not just of lifewriting, but also of its reception. He provides an important reminder of the politics of authorship in an age when ownership of proscribed texts could lead to public execution. * Times Literary Supplement *
Distinguished by its enormous erudition, analytical sharpness, humane observation, and poetic breadth, Stewart's history of early modern life writing deserves a wide and admiring audience. * Andrea Walkden, CUNY, Renaissance Quarterly *
On all counts, this is a useful, thoroughly researched, relevant, and interesting to read book for scholars and history enthusiasts alike. * Anna Faktorovich, Pensylvania Literary Journal *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199684076
Author Alan Stewart
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 796g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm * 31mm