Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H....
Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H....
Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H. Peterson.
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N828.80809/4
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English
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xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 Pe...
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
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Virginia
Date Published
1999.
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"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...
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Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H. Peterson.
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Victorian literature and culture series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.
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N828.80809/4
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74VvNp3dJB3g
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0813918839 :
9780813918839 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813918839 (cloth : alk. paper)
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828.80809492072
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991012810989702626
