| Description |
xiv, 215 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Worlds of women ; no. 5 |
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Worlds of women ; no. 5
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| Contents |
I. Women's Lifewriting and the (Male) Autobiographical Tradition. 1. The Female Self Engendered: Autobiographical Writing and Theories of Selfhood / Shari Benstock. 2. Woman's Autobiographical Writings: New Forms / Carolyn G. Heilbrun. 3. Construing Truth in Lying Mouths: Truthtelling in Women's Autobiography / Sidonie Smith. 4. Feminine Authorship and Spiritual Authority in Victorian Women Writers' Autobiographies / Mary Jean Corbett. 5. Gender-Related Difference in the Slave Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass / Winifred Morgan -- II. Theorizing the Female Subject: Who Writes, How, and Why? 6. Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography / Helen M. Buss. 7. Woman as Other, Other as Author, Author as ... Man? The Authobiographical Dimension of The Second Sex / Donna Perreault. 8. Beneath the Mask: Autobiographies of Japanese-American Women / Ann Rayson -- III. Rethinking Genre: Autobiography in Other Forms |
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9. Expanding the Boundaries of Criticism: The Diary as Female Autobiography / Judy Nolte Lensink. 10. Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Lifewriting / G. Thomas Couser -- IV. Women's Autobiography from the Early Modern Period to the Present: Sample Texts. 11. Seventeenth Century: From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life / Margaret Lucas Cavendish / Duchess of Newcastle. 12. Eighteenth Century: From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke / Charlotte Charke. 13. Nineteenth Century: From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs. 14. Twentieth Century: From All of a Piece: A Life with Multiple Sclerosis / Barbara D. Webster |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
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| Author |
Brownley, Martine Watson.
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Kimmich, Allison B., 1968-
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| LC no. |
99010956 |
| ISBN |
0842027017 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0842027025 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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