Diaries And Journals Of Literary Women From Fanny Burney To Virginia Woolf

Author : J. Simons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230376441

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Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf by J. Simons Pdf

This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.

Author : Judy Simons
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106009861201

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Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf by Judy Simons Pdf

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813065069

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Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf’s modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style. Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048819

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Becoming Virginia Woolf by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Encompassing thirty-eight handwritten volumes, Virginia Woolf’s diary is her longest work, her longest sustained, and last work to reach the public. In the only full-length work to explore deeply this luminous and boundary-stretching masterpiece, Barbara Lounsberry traces Woolf’s development as a writer through her first twelve diaries—a fascinating experimental stage, where the earliest hints of Woolf’s pioneering modernist style can be seen. Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf’s first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how her private and public writing was shaped by the diaries of other writers including Samuel Pepys, James Boswell, the French Goncourt brothers, Mary Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Woolf’s “diary parents”—Sir Walter Scott and Fanny Burney. These key literary connections open a new and indispensable window onto the story of one of literature’s most renowned modernists.

Author : Magdalena Ożarska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443855730

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Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley by Magdalena Ożarska Pdf

Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley sets out to determine whether each of the diaries by three female writers – namely, Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley – approximates the Philippe-Lejeunean concept of the diary as lacework or the more sweeping view, typical of the broadly conceived autobiography, which Georges Gusdorf famously likened to the mirror. The author explores Burney’s, Wordsworth’s and Shelley’s attempts at concealing the gaps between their narrating and narrated ‘I’s, as well as examining their diary lacunae, especially helpful for illustrating the gradual emergence of the diarists’ individual selves. Broader issues, connected with diary poetics, such as the use of metaphors and symbols, the degree of reliance on dialogue and ensuing narrativity, down to handling the past by means of anachronous eccentricities, are also subject to examination. The study is based on the assumption that the journal is a literary genre, which can be investigated with tools routinely used for the examination of literary texts. Yet, beyond the issues of literariness, in accordance with Philippe Lejeune’s dictum, the three journals reveal the writers’ diaristic practices. In fact, it seems that issues of the journal genre and the journal practice cannot be divorced, and neither can their lacework and mirror aspects.

Author : Lorna J. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443814980

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A Celebration of Frances Burney by Lorna J. Clark Pdf

On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the writer Frances Burney (1752–1840), a window to her memory was placed in the arched recess of stained glass that graces Poets’ Corner. Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney is one of the few women accorded such an honour. She joins the likes of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot who might in some ways be seen as her literary heirs. Burney’s journey to recognition on the stage of the world has been a long one, crowned finally with triumph. The service marked the mid-point of a two-day conference in which various aspects of Burney’s life and achievement were canvassed. Her journals and letters, her novels and plays (both comedies and tragedies), her life, family and context were all given serious scholarly treatment. This volume includes the papers presented at the conference, which cover the many facets of a remarkable career and represent the broad spectrum of scholarly approaches to the entire opus of Frances Burney. It shows how far Burney has come from being dismissed as a minor precursor to Jane Austen to being recognized in her own right as a powerful, complex and influential writer, whose works had considerable impact on her own and subsequent generations.

Author : Joanne Tidwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135905040

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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Tidwell Pdf

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted to incorporate her political interests in her fiction, but overt political statement conflicted with her aesthetic ideals. Her solution was to combine innovative narrative techniques and subject matter traditionally associated with women. Tidwell analyzes several of Woolf’s novels, including To the Lighthouse, Jacob’s Room, and Between the Acts to elucidate the diary’s technique and form, as well as to cast it as a valuable contribution to Woolf’s canon.

Author : A. Snaith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230206045

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Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies by A. Snaith Pdf

This book is an invaluable guide to the body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. It includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical. The essays provide concise summaries of the key works in the field as well as an engaging description of the approach itself.

Author : Barbara Lounsberry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813065380

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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within by Barbara Lounsberry Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf’s diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer’s life, from 1929 until Woolf’s suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary—and to the diaries of others—for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into Woolf’s diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf’s own entries, Lounsberry explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them, including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de Maupassant, Alice James, and André Gide. Lounsberry shows how reading diaries was both respite from Woolf’s public writing and also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and Woolf’s inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been called “the Shakespeare of the diary.” Lounsberry’s masterful study is essential reading for a complete understanding of this extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist literature.

Author : Randi Saloman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748656226

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Virginia Woolf's Essayism by Randi Saloman Pdf

Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her own conception of the modern novel. This book forcuses on Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Saloman shows that it was by employing tools and methods drawn f

Author : Catherine Delafield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317201335

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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Catherine Delafield Pdf

First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary writing, it assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. It also considers women as writers, readers and subjects and demonstrates ways in which women could become performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature and women in literature.

Author : Batsheva Ben-Amos,Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253046956

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The Diary by Batsheva Ben-Amos,Dan Ben-Amos Pdf

The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.

Author : D. Cook,A. Culley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137030771

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Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 by D. Cook,A. Culley Pdf

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.

Author : Eleanor Amico
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1279 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314040

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Reader's Guide to Women's Studies by Eleanor Amico Pdf

The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."

Author : Barbara Joan Horwitz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810833158

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British Women Writers, 1700-1850 by Barbara Joan Horwitz Pdf

A guide to British women authors, their works, and the writing about them.