Prof Ursula Hurley U.K.Hurley@salford.ac.uk
Professor of Life Writing
Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary
Hurley, Ursula
Authors
Abstract
This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-progress. When attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Renaissance playwright Elizabeth Cary (1584–1639) foundered, I developed an experimental form in order to accommodate the increasingly urgent questions of genre, gender, and historical narrative that arose as I began to research and write the extraordinary life of a pioneering author, social activist, and religious dissenter. Writing a text that attempts to make transparent the processes of biography steered my practice away from the conventions of literary biography and turned me towards the rich heritage of experimental fiction, where the staging of biographical processes as simultaneously historical fiction and autobiography becomes the most “truthful” way of presenting the narratives.
Citation
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In Experiments in Life-Writing (249-272). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3
Publication Date | Oct 27, 2017 |
---|---|
Deposit Date | Oct 5, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 6, 2023 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 249-272 |
Book Title | Experiments in Life-Writing |
Chapter Number | 14 |
ISBN | 9783319554136 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3 |
Files
Accepted Version
(278 Kb)
PDF
You might also like
Apropos of everything: navigating life with genre
(2022)
Thesis
Downloadable Citations
About USIR
Administrator e-mail: library-research@salford.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search