Time, space, and gender in the nineteenth-century British diary
By: by Rebecca Steinitz
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230115866
Subjects: Publishing; English prose literature; Space and time in literature; History and criticism; Diaries in literature; English fiction; English diaries; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.