| Description |
ix, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
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Issues in Studying Women's Diaries: A Theoretical and Critical Introduction / Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff -- "I Write for Myself and Strangers": Private Diaries as Public Documents / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Rewriting Her Life: Fictionalization and the Use of Fictional Models in Early American Women's Diaries / Steven E. Kagle and Lorenza Gramegna -- A Lens of Empathy / Jeanne Braham -- Fragments as Diary: Theoretical Implications of the Dreams and Visions of "Baby Doe" Tabor / Judy Nolte Temple -- A Feminist Revision of New Historicism to Give Fuller Readings of Women's Private Writing / Helen M. Buss -- The "Journal de Jeune Fille" in Nineteenth-Century France / Philippe Lejeune -- Textual Boundaries: Space in Nineteenth-Century Women's Manuscript Diaries / Cynthia A. Huff -- When Meanings Meet: The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke / Geneva Cobb-Moore -- Preserving the Moment in the Diary of Margaret Fountaine / Harriet Blodgett |
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The Diary as Creative Midwife: Interviews with Three Writers / Trudelle H. Thomas -- The Private Alibi: Literacy and Community in the Diaries of Two Nineteenth-Century American Women / Marilyn Ferris Motz -- Ambivalence, Anger, and Silence: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Buck / Elizabeth R. Baer -- Diaries and Dysfunctional Families: The Case of Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen / Suzanne L. Bunkers -- Old Virginia and the Night Writer: The Origins of Woolf's Narrative Meander / H. Porter Abbott -- Invented Lives: Textuality and Power in Early Women's Diaries / Judy Simons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
American diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Canon (Literature)
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English diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Bunkers, Suzanne L.
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Huff, Cynthia Anne.
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| LC no. |
95031825 |
| ISBN |
1558490108 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1558490116 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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