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- Title
Childhood and Loss in Early Modern Life Writing.
- Authors
Hodgkin, Katharine
- 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 insistentlyfelt. 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 ojnostalgia in early modern subjects.
- Subjects
NOSTALGIA in literature; CHILDREN in literature; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; MEMORY in literature; EARLY memories; HOFER, Johannes
- Publication
Parergon, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2016.0078