The Tradition of Women's Autobiography
Author: Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2004-03-19
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1462806473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2004-03-19
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1462806473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780805790214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this ground-breaking literary history, Estelle Jelinek traces startling consistencies in the way women have written about their lives from an early Roman memoir to contemporary American autobiographies. In fact, Jelinek establishes a distinctive tradition of women's autobiography that differs remarkably from men's autobiography in content, narrative form, and projected self-image.For all those interested in literature, history, and women's studies, The Tradition of Women's Autobiography challenges us to reevaluate the art of autobiography, enriching and expanding the genre's possibilities to include a women's tradition whose respected place in the literary history of the genre is long overdue.
Author: Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780608389196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Emma L. E. Rees
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780719060724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Margaret Cavendish was the most extraordinary seventeenth-century Englishwoman, refusing to be silent when exiled by the Crowmellian regime, she fought to make her voice heard through her fascinating publications.
Author: Barbara Caine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-09-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1350237639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Nancy A. Walker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9782881245213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780842027021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 2220
ISBN-13: 3110279819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.
Author: Margo Culley
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780299132941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focus on the works of Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.
Author: Mary Spongberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0230203078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.