Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling and Punctuation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. James VI and I and the Autobiographical Double Bind -- Chapter 2. Conversion and Confession in Donne's Prose -- Chapter 3. Milton and Autobiography in Crisis -- Chapter 4. Thomas Browne's Uneasy Confession of Faith -- Chapter 5 John Bunyan's Double Autobiography -- Chapter 6 James II and the End of the Confession of Faith -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. Brooke Conti positions these texts as products of the era's tense political climate
