Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf
By Judy SimonsThis highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 218 pages
- English
- 0333456076
- 9780333456071
About Judy Simons
judy simons is emeritus professor of english at de montfort university, where she was pro vice chancellor. she was previously professor of english at sheff Read More about Judy Simons
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