Time, space, and gender in the nineteenth-century British diary / Rebecca Steinitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinitz, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English diaries--History and criticism.

English diaries.

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

English prose literature.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English diaries--Publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Diaries in literature.

Space and time in literature.

Publishing.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary is the first comprehensive overview of the omnipresent phenomenon that was the nineteenth-century British diary. Examining manuscript diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, the book explores how the diary's organization of time and space made it an invaluable and uniquely effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period, including religion, Romanticism, empire, empiricism, domesticity, and nostalgia. The exploration of this vast and varied genre lays the foundation for an analysis of how the diary came to be known as the feminized, emotive, private form still privileged today. Book jacket.

Contents:

I The Manuscript Diary

1 Elizabeth Barrett, the Abandoned Diary, and the Challenge of Time 13

2 Arthur Munby, the Endless Diary, and the Promise of Space 39

3 Family, Gender, and the Intimate Diary 77

II The Diary in Print

4 The Politics of Publication 109

5 Fiction and the Feminization of the Diary 155

Postscript Diaries, Blogs, and Gender 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780230115866

0230115861

OCLC:

704384745