The Oxford History of Life-Writing, Volume 2: Early Modern

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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LIFE-WRITING VOLUME 2 EARLY MODERN
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION
Introduction
	Life-writing
	Writing Lives
	Life-Writing in Early Modern England
Chapter 1:  The Dangerous Lives of Sir Thomas More
	‘I, William Roper’
	A Battle for Inheritance
	The More Legacies
	Topcliffe and Harpsfield
Chapter 2:  The Reformed Lives of John Bale
	Bale’s Conversions
	The Vocation of John Bale
	A Second St Paul
Chapter 3:  John Foxe’s Lives of the Saints
	When Foxe Met Bale
	Foxe’s Histories of the Church
	That Huge Dongehill of Your Stinking Martyrs: The Catholic Backlash
	Reading the Book of Martyrs
Chapter 4:  Thomas Whythorne’s Life in Songs and Sonnets
	Devysed and Written with a New Orthografye
	‘Thomas Whythorne’
	A Book of Songs and Sonetts
	Thomas Whythorne, Gent.
	‘Miuzik in This Tyme Prezent’
Chapter 5:  The Memorials of  William Lambe
	William Lambe, Philanthropist
	Epitaph and Memoriall
	The Limitations of Good Works
	The Fate of the Monuments
Chapter 6:  The Receipts and Payments of Richard Stonley
	Self Accounting: The Rise of the Diary
	The Diaries of Richard Stonley
	The Life of Richard Stonley
	Reading the Page
Chapter 7:  Richard Rogers’s Course of Examination
	My State in My Christian Practice
	The Spread of the Spiritual Examination
Chapter 8:  The Christian Life and Godly Death of Katherine Brettergh
	The Funeral Sermon Controversy
	Katherine Brettergh in Print
	Grievances at the Hands of Papists
	The Author of Brettergh’s Life
Chapter 9:  The Revised Lives of Tobie Matthew
	1611: Conuersion to the Catholick Fayth
	1629: A Visible Marke of Particular Honour
	1640: A Funerall Aduise to the Reader
Chapter 10:  The Familial Lives of Martha Moulsworth and Constance Lucy
	My Name Was Martha
	An Acount of the Lady Lucy
	Martha Moulsworth, Widdowe
Chapter 11:  The Collected Lives of Samuel Clarke
	Samuel Clarke: A Life in Print
	Gathering Relations
	Clarke’s Lives: The Legacy
Chapter 12:  Izaak Walton’s Lives and Works
	How Walton Became a Life-Writer
	A Prefatory Life: Donne in 1640
	These Times: Donne in 1658
	Lean, Pale, and Death-Like: Donne’s Slow Death
Chapter 13:  John Aubrey’s Minutes of Lives
	The Road to the Brief Lives
	The Life of Verulam
	Walton and Aubrey: The Lives of John Hales
Chapter 14:  Samuel Pepys’s Life in Shorthand
	Swift or Secret? The Uses of Early Modern Shorthand
	Pepys’s Uses of Shorthand
	Why Pepys Ended his Diary
	Bibliotheca Pepysiana
Chapter 15:  The Dangerous Lives of Thomas Dangerfield
	English Guzmans: The Rise of Rogue Biography
	The Juvenile Rambles of Thomas Dangerfield
	Duke Dangerfield
	The End of Dangerfield
NOTES
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
Bibliography
Index