| Description |
xvi, 242 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 212-231. |
| Contents |
From antiquity to nineteenth-century British autobiography --Earliest stirrings : the mystical voice -- The seventeenth century : psychological beginnings -- The eighteenth century : professional beginnings -- The nineteenth century : new voices -- American autobiography to the twentieth century -- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : traditional beginnings -- Early nineteenth century : stirrings of adventure and defiance -- Mid-nineteenth century : breaking the bonds -- Late nineteenth century : pioneering in literature, the land, and social reform -- American autobiography in the modern era -- Traditional autobiography liberated : the ordinary and superwoman Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Exotic autobiography intellectualized : the legitimation of Gertrude Stein -- Literary autobiography recast : the oblique heroism of Lillian Hellman -- Political and personal autobiography integrated : the fusion of Kate Miller. |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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| ISBN |
0805790187 (alk. paper) : $18.95 |
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0805790217 (pbk.) |
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0805790187 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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