The Autobiographical Subject
Subtitle: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801838255
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Literature: History & Criticism; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; Women and literature; History; 18th Century English Novel And Short Story; Women In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; History and criticism; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Autobiography; 18th century; England; English prose literature
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.