The Tradition of Women's Autobiography
Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1462806473
Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1462806473
Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Autobiographie
ISBN : 9780805790214
In this ground-breaking literary history, Estelle Jelinek traces startling consistencies in the way women have written about their lives from an early Roman memoir to contemporary American autobiographies. In fact, Jelinek establishes a distinctive tradition of women's autobiography that differs remarkably from men's autobiography in content, narrative form, and projected self-image.For all those interested in literature, history, and women's studies, The Tradition of Women's Autobiography challenges us to reevaluate the art of autobiography, enriching and expanding the genre's possibilities to include a women's tradition whose respected place in the literary history of the genre is long overdue.
Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN : 9780608389196
Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813918839
Victorian women's autobiography emerged at a historical moment when the field of life writing was particularly rich. Spiritual autobiography was developing interesting variations in the heroic memoirs of pioneering missionary women and in probing intellectual analyses of Nonconformists, Anglicans, agnostics, and other religious thinkers. The chroniques scandaleuses of the eighteenth century were giving way to the respectable artist's life of the professional Victorian woman. The domestic memoir, a Victorian variation on the family histories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, flourished in a culture that celebrated the joys of home, family, and private life. Perhaps most important, Victorian women writers were experimenting with all these forms in various combinations and permutations. Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontëan and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs. The desire to know the details of other women's lives--and to use them for one's own purposes--underlies much Victorian women's autobiography, even as it helps to explain our continuing interest in their accounts.
Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501745565
Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.
Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299158446
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.
Author : Shari Benstock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807842188
This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, t
Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780842027021
An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.
Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Autobiografía - Mujeres como autoras
ISBN : 9780253204431