Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Peterson, Linda H.

Title Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H. Peterson.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828.808 P485T    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Victorian literature and culture series
Victorian literature and culture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-248) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography -- 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.
ISBN 0813920604
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español