Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography
the poetics and politics of life writing
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Author
Publication
1999 - University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL35194M
- ISBN-100813918839
- OCLC Control Number44958136
- OCLC Control Number40830265
- OCLC Control Numbertraditionsofvict00pete
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99019832
- Goodreads3276713
- LibraryThing422982
Classifications
- DDC828/.80809492072
- LCCPR788.W65 P47 1999
Description
"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 Bronte'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 Brontean and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
WHAT IS WOMEN'S autobiography, and when did women autobiographers first become conscious of their life writing as a tradition?
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Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
Other Editions
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