Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender

by Lillian S. Robinson

Book Overview

In this book gender is the lens through which autobiography and biography are scrutinized. The authors show what is revealed when they magnify the gendered aspects of both men's and women's writing. The eternal questions of identity, choice, responsibility, happiness, tragedy, and even death are interpreted in terms of gender analysis.

The book presents a sequence of studies from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century that includes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791404366
• ISBN13: 9780791404362
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"