Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The Private Self

Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings

The Private Self( )
Editor: Benstock, Shari
ISBN:978-0-8078-4218-8
Publication Date:Oct 1988
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $92.00AUD $64.00
Book Description:

Discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays examine a wide range of private life writings - letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual autobiographies.

Book Details
Pages:326
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.545 x 23.495 x 1.854 cm
Book Weight:0.028 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Shari Benstock is a professor of English & associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami. She is the author of several books, most recently "No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton." Along with Suzanne Ferriss, she edits "On Fashion" (Rutgers University Press, 1994).

010



Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.