Women and Autobiography

Herausgeber: Brownley, Martine Watson; Kimmich, Allison B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Autobiography, as evidenced by best-seller lists, is one of the most popular literary genres. However, because critics have long dismissed it as subpar literature, little attention has been paid to autobiography, particularly accounts by women. Women and Autobiography, edited by Martine Watson Brownley and Allison B. Kimmich, offers an insightful perspective on this often overlooked field. This text gives a compact, comprehensive overview of women's autobiography, providing historical back-ground and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. Developed primarily for undergraduates, Women and Autobiography combines theory and practice by pairing autobiographical selections and criticism. This book is a useful tool for courses in autobiography, literature by women, and women's studies.

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Produktdetails

• The Worlds of Women Series
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780842027021
• ISBN-10: 0842027025
• Artikelnr.: 22200213

Autorenporträt

Martine Watson Brownley is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University. Allison B. Kimmich is assistant director of the Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL) program at the University of Richmond.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 I Women's Lifewriting and the (Male) Autobiographical Tradition
Chapter 2 The Female Self Engendered: Autobiographical Writing and Theories
of Selfhood Chapter 3 Women's Autobiographical Writings: New Forms Chapter
4 Construing Truth in Lying Mouths: Truthtelling in Women's Autobiography
Chapter 5 Feminine Authorship and Spiritual Authority in Victorian Women
Writers' Autobiographies Chapter 6 Gender-Related Difference in the Slave
Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass Part 7 II Theorizing
the Female Subject: Who Writes, How, and Why? Chapter 8 Reading for the
Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography Chapter 9 Woman as
Other, Other as Author, Author as . . . Man? The Authobiographical
Dimension of The Second Sex Chapter 10 Beneath the Mask: Autobiographies of
Japanese-American Women Part 11 III Rethinking Genre: Autobiography in
Other Forms Chapter 12 Expanding the Boundaries of Criticism: The Diary as
Female Autobiography Chapter 13 Autopathography: Women, Illness, and
Lifewriting Part 14 Women's Autobiography from the Early Modern Period to
the Present: Sample Texts Chapter 15 Seventeenth Century: From A True
Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life Chapter 16 Eighteenth
Century: From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke Chapter 17
Nineteenth Century: From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Chapter 18
Twentieth Century: From All o fa Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis