
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 79-89
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503
Full citation:
, "Writing contexts in William Roper's life of Thomas More", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998


Writing contexts in William Roper's life of Thomas More
pp. 79-89
in: Warwick Gould, Thomas F. Staley (eds), Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998Abstract
In this essay I would like to offer a reading of a sixteenth-century biography of Thomas More written in the 1550s by his son-in-law, William Roper. In the course of this reading, I will sketch the text's relationship to a tradition of lives of More, to questions of the generic status of biography, and to the importance of framing and contexts to interpretation.
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 79-89
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503
Full citation:
, "Writing contexts in William Roper's life of Thomas More", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998