Research Catalog

Title

The tradition of women's autobiography from antiquity to the present / Estelle C. Jelinek.

Author

Jelinek, Estelle C.

Publication

Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1986.

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Details

Description

xvi, 242 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Autobiographies as Topic
• Autobiography > Women authors

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 212-231.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0805790187 (alk. paper) :
• 0805790217 (pbk.)
• 0805790187 (pbk. : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^86009962^//r87

OCLC

13524853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library