LEADER 04547cam 2200577 i 4500001 on1154520108 003 OCoLC 005 20210503110808.0 008 200520s2021 mau b 001 0 eng 010 2020019503 019 1154511142 020 9781625345523 020 9781625345516 |qhardcover 020 1625345518 |qhardcover 020 1625345526 |qpaperback 020 |z9781613767979 |qelectronic book 020 |z9781613767986 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) o1154520108 035 (OCoLC)1154520108 |z(OCoLC)1154511142 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dERASA |dQGK |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 050 00 PS366.A88 |bP48 2021 082 00 810.9/9287 |223 100 1 Petrie, Windy Counsell, |eauthor. |=^A1416980 245 10 Templates for authorship : |bAmerican women's literary autobiography of the 1930s / |cWindy Counsell Petrie. 264 1 Amherst : |bUniversity of Massachusetts Press, |c[2021] 300 x, 306 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that created an unprecedented boom in American women's literary autobiography. Windy Counsell Petrie considers twelve autobiographies from a diverse group of writers, ranging from highbrow modernists such as Gertrude Stein and Harriet Monroe to popular fiction writers like Edith Wharton and Edna Ferber, and lesser known figures such as Grace King and Carolyn Wells. Since there were few existing examples of women's literary autobiography, these writers found themselves marketed and interpreted within four cultural templates: the artist, the activist, the professional, and the celebrity. As they wrote their life stories, the women adapted these templates to counter unwanted interpretations and resist the sentimental feminine traditions of previous generations with innovative strategies of deferral, elision, comedy, and collaboration. This accessible study contends that writing autobiography offered each of these writers an opportunity to define and defend her own literary legacy"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: American Women's Literary Autobiography in the Depression-Era Marketplace -- The Artist's Soul or the Woman's Life: Renunciation in Edith Wharton's A Backward Glance and Grace King's Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters -- Daring Denunciations: Celebrity Drama in Gertrude Atherton's Adventures of a Novelist and Margaret Anderson's My Thirty Year's War -- Refusing Nostalgia, Denying Desire: Didactic Activism in the Autobiographies of Margaret Deland and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Women of Vision: Pioneering Collaborations in Mary Austin's Earth Horizon and Harriet Monroe's A Poet's Life -- American Everywomen: Middlebrow Professionalism in Mary Roberts Rinehart's My Story and Edna Ferber's A Peculiar Treasure -- Strategic Diversions: The Veiled Autobiographies of Gertrude Stein and Carolyn Wells -- Epilogue: Portraits of the Artist as an Old Woman. 650 0 Women authors, American |vBiography |xHistory and criticism. |=^A476923 650 0 American prose literature |xWomen authors |xHistory and criticism. |=^A228719 650 0 American prose literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A125451 650 0 Autobiography |xWomen authors |xHistory and criticism. |=^A121850 650 0 Biography as a literary form |xHistory and criticism. |=^A24894 650 7 American prose literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00807422 650 7 American prose literature |xWomen authors. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00807437 650 7 Autobiography |xWomen authors. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00822617 650 7 Biography as a literary form. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00832172 650 7 Women authors, American |xBiography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01177212 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s28.95 |uJENG |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 5568872