The Autobiographical Subject
Subtitle: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801852374
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Biography And Autobiography; Women In English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Eighteenth-century England witnessed a convergence of three phenomena that link together genre, class, and gender: the conceptualization of "autobiography" as a recognizable set of practices, distinct from other kinds of writing; the use of autobiography as a technology of the middle-class self; and the assertion of a female identity in public print.