Women's diaries as narrative in the nineteenth-century novel

著者

• Delafield, Catherine

書誌事項

Women's diaries as narrative in the nineteenth-century novel

Catherine Delafield

（Nineteenth century series）

Ashgate, c2009

タイトル別名

Women's diaries as narrative in the nineteenth century novel

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary-writing, she assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne BrontA", Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. The ideological function of the diary, Delafield suggests, produces a conflict in fictional narrative between that diary's received use as a domestic and spiritual record and its authority as a life-writing opportunity for women. Delafield considers women as writers, readers, and subjects and contextualizes her analysis within nineteenth-century reading practice. She demonstrates ways in which women could becomes performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood.

目次

• Contents: Introduction: performing to strangers
• Part 1 The Diary Model: The diary in the 19th century
• The female diarist in the 19th century
• The diary in print. Part 2 The Diary and Literary Production: The diary and women's writing
• The diary and the epistolary form
• The diary and serial narrative
• The diary and the documentary
• The diary and sensation fiction. Part 3 The Diary as Narrative: The diary narrating the novel
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA91300077
• ISBN:
  • 9780754665175
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Farnham, England
• ページ数/冊数: 191 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PR115
  • DC22 : 823/.8099287
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Diaries in literature
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA25193473