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. |
Local note | Little-290649--305130043512R |
Local note | Little-290649--305130043512R |
General note | Includes index. |
Bibliography note | Bibliography: p. 212-231. |
LCCN | 86009962 |
ISBN | 0805790187 (alk. paper) : |
ISBN | 0805790217 (pbk.) |