Representing femininity : middle-class subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian women's autobiographies / Mary Jean Corbett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--Women authors.

Women authors, English--19th century--Biography--History and criticism.

Women authors, English.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women--Great Britain--History--19th century--Historiography.

Women.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Historiography.

Biography.

Great Britain.

Women--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.

Femininity in literature.

Middle class in literature.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Subjectivity in literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

This book analyzes the relationship between women's experience and the social institutions and cultural forms in which that experience is publicly represented. Challenging the assumption that middle-class women were confined solely to domesticity, Corbett examines the rhetorical strategies of self-representation by women who participated in public life. She discusses autobiographies by religious women writers, secular writers, Victorian actresses, and suffragettes, engaging some of the central issues in feminist criticism and politics while opening to view a broad range of self-representation that has been unduly slighted in feminist historical, cultural, and literary analysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195068580

OCLC:

23651517