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Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing
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- Creator
- Linda H. Peterson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813918839, 0813918839
- OCLC
- ocm40830265
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-248) and index.
- On the Victorian "origins" of women's autobiography: reconstructing the traditions -- The polemics of piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the ideological uses of spiritual autobiography -- "The feelings and claims of little people": heroic missionary memoirs, domestic(ated) spiritual autobiography, and Jane Eyre: an autobiography -- "For my better self": auto/biographies of the poetess, and the Prelude of the poet laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Family business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as professional artist's life -- Mary Cholmondeley's bifurcated autobiography: Eliotian and Brontëan traditions in Red pottage and Under one roof
Subjects
- 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.