Childhood and Loss in Early Modern Life Writing
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Hodgkin, K. 2017. Childhood and Loss in Early Modern Life Writing. Parergon. 33 (2), pp. 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2016.0078
Authors | Hodgkin, K. |
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Abstract | Memories of childhood seldom appear in early modern life writing, and nostalgia is not a primary mode of recollection. Where childhood does figure, it is often troubled: difficult memories, of loss, death, and displacement, make themselves insistently felt. However, nostalgia registers not only idealisation, but also a sense of connection to a continuingly resonant past. This article considers the representation of childhood memory in six seventeenth-century narratives, examining how these texts negotiate a relation to the past, and tracing elements of the emotional structures of nostalgia |
Journal | Parergon |
Journal citation | 33 (2), pp. 115-134 |
ISSN | 1832-8334 |
0313-6221 | |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies) |
Publisher's version | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2016.0078 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 25 Mar 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 24 May 2017 |
Accepted | 22 Sep 2016 |
Accepted | 20 Sep 2016 |
Copyright information | © 2016 The author. |
License | All rights reserved |
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