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28 de feb. de 2021 · First Online: 28 February 2021. 205 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter explores the Diary of Samuel Pepys. It assesses recurrent tropes in Pepys criticism such as the Diary ’s alleged “Puritanism” (Barker 1984: 8), Pepys’s bourgeois individualism, and the capacious, encompassing quality of his writing.
- Miriam Nandi
- miriam.nandi@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
- 2021
The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1660. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
2 de jul. de 2020 · 2 This paper uses The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wheatley, H. (ed.) (10 volumes, 1893-9), for the online edition (www.pepysdiary.com). This text is reliable, when compared with The Diary of Samuel Pepys Latham, R. and W. Matthews (eds.), which has better notes, but is only available in book form, so not so easily accessed, searched and analysed.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys has been called a literary work like no other. Unlike other diarists of his time, Pepys had no aspirations for publication. This freed him up to paint a frank, uncensored portrait of life in London at the time of the Restoration. Throughout the work, which spans from 1660 to 1669, Pepys offers his firsthand perspective on ...
Samuel Pepys was born in London, England on February 23, 1633. One of eleven children, he ended up becoming the eldest of only three who survived to adulthood. Pepys grew up in a household of humble means. His mother was the sister of a butcher and his father was a poor tailor, barely able to collect money for his services. Pepys's one family asset...
Sir William Batten
Sir William Batten is the surveyor on the Naval Board where Pepys is Clerk of the Acts. Pepys confesses in his memoirs not to like the man, although he does attend the man's parties, where he has a good time. In their professional lives, Batten and Pepys occasionally quarrel about certain matters, such as choosing masters for the fleet. Pepys really invokes Batten's ire when Pepys finds a timber contract that is better for the navy. By switching contracts, Pepys takes away Batten's percentage...
Sir George Carteret
Sir George Carteret is the Treasurer on the Naval Board, and is a concern of Pepys's on certain occasions. Pepys treads very carefully around Carteret, although he does help arrange the marriage between Carteret's son and the Earl of Sandwich's daughter.
Lady Barbara Palmer Castlemaine
Lady Castlemaine is one of the women for whom Pepys lusts, and one of the only ones that he does not actually have an affair with. She is a woman who is quite cunning and manipulative in getting what she wants. She inserts herself into the King's court at White Hall, where their affair is noted by both the Queen and the citizens of England. Castlemaine has the King help her separate from her husband, and even gets pregnant by the King. She manipulates the king in other ways, including squande...
Infidelity
Pepys's capacity for infidelity is almost legendary. Shortly after he begins The Diary of SamuelPepys, Pepys displays an ever-increasing need for his extramarital affairs. On May 20, 1660, when he is in the Netherlands to help escort Charles II back to England, Pepys takes a break from his labors and drinks too much. He then goes to sleep in his room, "where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind I had not the boldness to go to her." Althou...
Topics for Further Study
1. Research the types and styles of entertainment most popular during the 1660s, then compare this to the types of popular entertainment available today. Based on what has happened in entertainment in the past four centuries, discuss what types of popular entertainment you think will be available four centuries from now. 2. Pepys's diary gives an account of an English naval administrator during the 1660s and as a result, offers an aristocratic perspective. Research the history of the English...
Women's Roles
Throughout the narrative Pepys demonstrates derogatory attitudes toward women that were common at the time. Although Pepys loves his wife, he does not permit her to talk back to him. On November 13, 1662, when she sends him a letter letting him know how unhappy she is, he is "in a quandary what to do, whether to read it or not, but I purpose not, but to burn it before her face, that I may put a stop to more of this nature." Pepys's view of a wifeis the dutiful woman who takes care of the hous...
Description
Pepys narrates his memoirs in an honest reporting style noted by critics as unlike any other diary in history. Pepys never intended his memoirs for publication, and as a result recorded both common and historic daily events with a reporter's style of description. For example, on October 13, 1660, Pepys describes the historic event of the execution of one of Charles I's enemies as follows: "I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered." In the same en...
Point of View
Because The Diary of Samuel Pepysis a personal account, it is told only in Pepys's viewpoint. As a result the events are seen through the eyes of a well-to-do naval administrator, and certain perspectives are not explored. This is most notable in the difference between Pepys and those who work for him, both at home and in the English navy. For example, on the morning of December 2, 1660, Pepys observes that his maid had not done something properly and he beats her with a broom, an act that ma...
The English Civil War
The seventeenth century witnessed many governmental changes for England. The first war, which began the reshaping of the country, started in 1629 with King Charles I at the throne. From this year until 1640, coercion was placed on Scotland by the Earl of Strafford, Charles's chief advisor, and Archbishop Laud, who fostered animosity from the Puritans and Presbyterians when he imposed a mandatory Anglican prayer book for Scots to utilize. As a result, Scotland rebelled and invaded England. Aft...
The Protectorate
Charles I's death forced his son to leave the country and land in Scotland where he declared himself Charles II. Oliver Cromwell was now in charge of England, with his army that defeated the king still intact. Parliament proclaimed itself to be a republican Commonwealth. In 1650, Charles II attempted to invade England but was defeated by Cromwell at Worcester in 1651, and Charles fled once again in order to avoid capture. From 1652 to 1654, the First Anglo-Dutch War occurred under Cromwell's...
The Restoration
With all the frustration from Cromwell's severe Puritanism, Parliament offered the throne to Charles II. However, before they agreed to allow Charles back into the country, he had to agree to a couple of concessions—religious tolerance and amnesty for those involved in the execution of his father, Charles I. Charles agreed to these terms and came back to England to take his place on the throne. Socially, Charles II's rule became a time of returning to diversions that had been banned by Cromwe...
Since The Diary of Samuel Pepyswas first released, all versions of the work have received mostly good reviews. Francis Jeffrey reviewed the work in 1825, saying, "We have a great indulgence, we confess, for the taste, or curiosity, or whatever it may be called, that gives its value to such publications." However, Jeffrey also noted that from a pure...
Ryan D. Poquette
Poquette has a bachelor's degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses the conflicting obsessions that the narrator is subject to in Pepys'sThe Diary of Samuel Pepys. Pepys was first and foremost a man of passion and when he devoted his energies towards something, he always gave everything. Although his various obsessions would serve him well professionally, they would sometimes lead to other obsessions against his will, and he woul...
What Do I Read Next?
1. Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril, 1669-1683, by Arthur Bryant, is a book that discusses the next set of historical events after Pepys stops writing in his journal. Published in 1985, it covers his work toward setting up a more organized navy, as well as major events that involved Pepys, such as the Popish Plot. 2. The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama: Broadview Anthologies of English Literature(2001), edited by J. Douglas Canfield and Maja-Lisa Von Snei...
Coote, Stephen, Samuel Pepys: A Life,Palgrave, 2001, pp. 65, 81, 104. Gosse, Edmund, "Prose after the Restoration," in A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1660-1780),Macmillan and Co., 1889, pp. 73-104. Jeffrey, Francis, "An Excerpt from a Review of Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq.," in the Edinburgh Review,Vol. XLIII, No. LXXXV, November 1825...
Caroline Wingfield-Baker (1801–1868) Alma mater. Trinity College, Cambridge. Charles Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham, PC ( / ˈpɛpɪs /; [1] 29 April 1781 – 29 April 1851 [2]) was an English lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain .
Samuel Pepys BirthdayWednesday, February 23, 1633 BirthplaceLondon, England DiedSaturday, May 26, 1703 Occupation Naval Administrator started off as Clerk of the Acts working ...
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