Literary Figures - Women's Biography, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Biography & Autobiography - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Women's Literary Biography, Women Authors - G
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This is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the contribution of American women to the writing of autobiography. The authors trace traditions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries from the narratives of Puritan women to contemporary multicultural literature.Editorials
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Fourteen essays on American women's autobiographical writing trace, in effect, the development of a tradition of women's life-writing within historically and socially specific contexts, rooted in Puritan beliefs about the self and the Puritan practice of conversion narratives. Writers of autobiography discussed include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dorothy Day, Angela Davis, and Emma Goldman. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1992
Publisher
University Wisconsin Press, c1992.
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780299132903