Private woman, public stage
Subtitle: literary domesticity in nineteenth-century America
By: Mary Kelley, with a new preface by the author.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Authorship -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century.; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Women -- Books and reading -- United States.; Women -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Women authors, American -- Biography.; Public opinion in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Privacy in literature.; Women in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-395) and index.
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.