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Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf

By Judy Simons (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1990
ISBN
978-0-333-52341-4, 978-0-230-37644-1
DOI
10.1057/9780230376441
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19838376 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 218\227
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Feminism;Literaturegeneral;Gender Studies

Description

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.

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