Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing

by Linda H. Peterson

Book Overview

Victorian women's autobiography emerged at a historical moment when the field of life writing was particularly rich. Spiritual autobiography was developing interesting variations in the heroic memoirs of pioneering missionary women and in probing intellectual analyses of Nonconformists, Anglicans, agnostics, and other religious thinkers. The chroniques scandaleuses of the eighteenth century were giving way to the respectable artist's life of the professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920604
• ISBN13: 9780813920603
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher