Composing Selves Southern Women and Autobiography |
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| Author:
| Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman |
| Series title: | Southern Literary Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8071-3791-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Publisher: | LSU Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides her most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen female authors. Drawing on so many notable authors and her own life-time of scholarship Composing Selves is Prenshaw's master work.
In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides her most comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen female authors. Drawing on so many notable authors and her own life-time of scholarship Composing Selves is Prenshaw's master work.