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

Author/creator Jelinek, Estelle C.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBoston : Twayne Publishers, ©1986.
Descriptionxvi, 242 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
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 noteLittle-290649--305130043512R
Local noteLittle-290649--305130043512R
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 212-231.
LCCN 86009962
ISBN0805790187 (alk. paper) :
ISBN0805790217 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks CT25 .J45 1986 ✔ Available Place Hold