Time, Space, and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century British Diary [electronic resource] /
Steinitz, R.author.
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Writing; Introduction; I: The Manuscript Diary; 1 Elizabeth Barrett, the Abandoned Diary, and the Challenge of Time; 2 Arthur Munby, the Endless Diary, and the Promise of Space; 3 Family, Gender, and the Intimate Diary; II: The Diary in Print; 4 The Politics of Publication; 5 Fiction and the Feminization of the Diary; Postscript: Diaries, Blogs, and Gender; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Sociology.
British literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
British and Irish Literature.