Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-century Novel
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Author | : Catherine Delafield |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0754665178 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780754665175 |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-century Novel by : Catherine Delafield
Book excerpt: Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Examining historical and fictional diaries by authors such as Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, Delafield reveals the ideological discrepancy between the private diary and its performance in the role of narrator, offering fresh insights into domesticity, authorship, and the diary as a feminine form and model for narrative.