Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative

by Elizabeth Grubgeld

Book Overview

As a volatile meeting point of personal and public experience, autobiography exists in a mutually influential relationship with the literature history, private writings, and domestic practices of a society. This book illuminates the ways evolving class and gender identities interact with these inherited forms of narrative to produce the testimony of a culture confronting its own demise. Elizabeth Grubgeld places Irish autobiography within the ever-widening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630417
• ISBN13: 9780815630418
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.8"