Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

In Composing Selves, award-winning author Peggy Whitman Prenshaw provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen women authors.
Composing Selves travels the wide terrain of female life in the South, analyzing various issues that range...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080713791X
• ISBN13: 9780807137918
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"