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Mapping the 'I', research on self-narratives in Germany and Switzerland, edited by Claudia Ulbrich, Kaspar von Greyerz, Lorenz Heiligensetzer

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Mapping the 'I', research on self-narratives in Germany and Switzerland, edited by Claudia Ulbrich, Kaspar von Greyerz, Lorenz Heiligensetzer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mapping the 'I'

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bibliography

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891030268

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edited by Claudia Ulbrich, Kaspar von Greyerz, Lorenz Heiligensetzer

Series statement

Egodocuments and History Series, volume 8

Sub title

research on self-narratives in Germany and Switzerland

Summary

In Mapping the "I", Research on Self Narratives in Germany and Switzerland, the contributors, working with egodocuments (autobiographies, diaries, family chronicles and related texts), discuss various approaches to early modern concepts of the person and of personhood, the place of individuality within this context, genre and practices of writing. The volume documents the cooperation between the Berlin and Basel self-narrative research groups during its first phase (2000-2007). Next to addressing crucial methodological issues, it also demonstrates the richness of egodocuments as historical sources in contributions concentrating, for example, on the body and illness, on food, as well as on the early modern economy, group cultures and autobiographical considerations of one's own suicide.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Part I: Inroads Gabriele Jancke/ Claudia Ulbrich: From the Individual to the Person: Challenging Autobiography Theory Kaspar von Greyerz: Observations on the Historiographical Status of Research on Self Writing Lorenz Heiligensetzer: Swiss-German Self-Narratives: The Archival Project as a Rich Vein of Research Gudrun Piller: Private Body: What do Self-Narratives bring to the History of the Body? Part II: Approaches Angela Heimen: What would you like to eat? I will wake the maidens; they shall prepare soup for you <U+0127> food as a code in the autobiography of Thomas Platter Gabriele Jancke: Autobiographical Texts: Acting within an Network. Observations on Genre and Power Relations in the Germen-Language Regions from 1400 to 1620 Andreas Bähr: Condemning Oneself to Death: The Semantics of Suicide in the German Enlightenment Fabian Brändle: Pitfalls in Reading Popular Self-Narratives: Biographical Reconfigurations and Self-Censure in the Autobiography of a Peddler, Small Framer and Weaver from Eastern Switzerland, Gregorius Aemisegger (1815-1913) Part III: Cartography Claudia Ulbrich: Family and House Books in the German-Speaking Regions: A Research Overview Thomas M. Safley: Autobiography in Economic History Sophie Ruppel: Family Politics, Family Networks and the Familial Self: Sibling Letters in seventeenth-century German High Aristocracy Patricia Zihlmann-Märki: Scrabbling Mice, a Visit from Hades and Thoughts of Death: The Autobiography of Lucas Forcart-Respinger, a Merchant from Basel (1789-1869)

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