Women And The Autobiographical Impulse

Author : Barbara Caine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350237643

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Women and the Autobiographical Impulse by Barbara Caine Pdf

Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life experiences. Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of history: from the emergence of the 'modern autobiography' in the 18th-century which laid bare the scandalous lives of 'fallen women', to the literary and suffragist autobiographies of the 19th-century to the establishment of feminist publishers in the 20th century and the taboo-shattering autobiographies they produced. The result is a much-needed history, one which provides a different way of thinking about the trajectory of genre information. Caine's compelling study fills an important gap in the genre of autobiography, by embracing a wide range of women and offering an extensive discussion of the autobiographies of women across the 19th and 20th centuries, making it ideal for classroom use.

Author : Barbara Caine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350237636

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Women and the Autobiographical Impulse by Barbara Caine Pdf

Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life experiences. Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of history: from the emergence of the 'modern autobiography' in the 18th-century which laid bare the scandalous lives of 'fallen women', to the literary and suffragist autobiographies of the 19th-century to the establishment of feminist publishers in the 20th century and the taboo-shattering autobiographies they produced. The result is a much-needed history, one which provides a different way of thinking about the trajectory of genre information. Caine's compelling study fills an important gap in the genre of autobiography, by embracing a wide range of women and offering an extensive discussion of the autobiographies of women across the 19th and 20th centuries, making it ideal for classroom use.

Author : Martine Watson Brownley,Allison B. Kimmich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0842027025

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Women and Autobiography by Martine Watson Brownley,Allison B. Kimmich Pdf

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 : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462806478

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The Tradition of Women's Autobiography by Estelle C. Jelinek Pdf

Author : Judy Long
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814750759

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Telling Women's Lives by Judy Long Pdf

Long (sociology, Syracuse U.) seeks other methods for women's autobiography than the traditional Great Man and masculine discourse. She says it must reflect female subjectivity and provide space for the distinctive nature of women's experience. The one she finds is built on the past two decades of feminist methodology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : T. Curtis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781137428868

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New Media in Black Women’s Autobiography by T. Curtis Pdf

Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the audience into visceral identification with them and thus forestalling stereotypes.

Author : Margo Culley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299132943

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American Women's Autobiography by Margo Culley Pdf

Focus on the works of Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.

Author : Linda R. Anderson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038103159

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Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century by Linda R. Anderson Pdf

The book focuses on the variety of forms twentieth-century autobiographical writing by women has taken and looks closely at the different theoretical issues and critical interpretations they have generated. The author argues that the problem posed by a feminist criticism of autobiography is how to avoid speaking for or about the very discourses through which women themselves are attempting to speak. How can theory resist appropriating the female subject at the very point of her emergence?

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076001482715

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Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body by Sidonie Smith Pdf

Author : Trev Lynn Broughton,Linda R. Anderson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0791433978

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Women's Lives/Women's Times by Trev Lynn Broughton,Linda R. Anderson Pdf

Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. It discusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally. This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text--particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism--but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries.

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316538937

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A History of English Autobiography by Adam Smyth Pdf

A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde and Woolf. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History is the definitive, single-volume collection on English autobiography and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Author : Victoria Boynton,Jo Malin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126891667

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Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography: A-J by Victoria Boynton,Jo Malin Pdf

Contains nearly two hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on women's autobiography, covering selected authors from throughout history, major works, nationalities or ethnicities, and related issues, themes, and terms.

Author : Sharon Cadman Seelig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521856957

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Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature by Sharon Cadman Seelig Pdf

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyzes the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatizing publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an original account of the development of autobiography with analysis of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell.

Author : Bella Brodzki,Celeste Schenck
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501745560

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Life/Lines by Bella Brodzki,Celeste Schenck Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804768374

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Between Rites and Rights by Anonim Pdf

The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate.