Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H. Peterson.
Series: Victorian literature and culture seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.Description: xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0813918839 (cloth : alk. paper)
- English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Autobiography -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 828.808094 PET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 64556 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.
I. On the Victorian "Origins" of Women's Autobiography: Reconstructing the Traditions -- II. The Polemics of Piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal Recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the Ideological Uses of Spiritual Autobiography -- III. "The Feelings and Claims of Little People": Heroic Missionary Memoirs, Domestic(ated) Spiritual Autobiography, and Jane Eyre: An Autobiography -- IV. "For My Better Self": Auto/biographies of the Poetess, the Prelude of the Poet Laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- V. Family Business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as Professional Artist's Life -- VI. Mary Cholmondeley's Bifurcated Autobiography: Eliotian and Brontean Traditions in Red Pottage and Under One Roof.
"Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontean and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
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