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The Female autograph : theory and practice of autobiography from the tenth to the twentieth century / edited by Domna C. Stanton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987, ©1984.Description: xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226771210
  • 9780226771212
  • 0226771202
  • 9780226771205
Uniform titles:
  • New York literary forum.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 920.72 19
LOC classification:
  • CT25 .F45 1987
Other classification:
  • 01.30
  • 17.86
Online resources:
Contents:
Autogynography : is the subject different? / Domna C. Stanton -- Ceremonies of the alphabet : female grandmatologies and the female authorgraph / Sandra Caruso Mortola Gilbert and Susan Dreyfuss David Gubar -- The female hand in Heian Japan : a first reading / Richard Bowring -- Autobiography of a new 'creatur' : female spirituality, selfhood, and authorship in "The book of Margery Kempe" / Janel M. Mueller -- To restore honor and fortune : "The autobiography of Leonor López de Córdoba" / Amy Katz Kaminsky and Elaine Dorough Johnson -- Artemisia Gentileschi : the artist's autograph in letters and paintings / Mary D. Garrard -- Giving weight to words : Madame de Sévigné's letters to her daughter / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- "My childhood years" : a memoir by Czarist cavalry officer, Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- Neither auction block nor pedestal : "The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady" / Frances Smith Foster -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : musician in her brother's shadow / Marcia J. Citron -- Women as law clerks : Catharine G. Waugh / Nancy F. Cott.
The female sociograph : the theater of Virginia Woolf's letters / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Of sparrows and condors : the autobiography of Eva Perón / Marysa Navarro -- "Difficult journey-- mountainous journey", the memoirs of Fadwa Tuqan / Donna Robinson Divine -- Women and autobiography at author's expense / Philippe Lejeune -- My memory's hyperbole / Julia Kristeva.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status
Non-fiction Main Non Fiction NR NMH Sta (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available

"The articles in this book originally appeared in The female autograph, volume 12-13 of the New York literary forum"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241).

Autogynography : is the subject different? / Domna C. Stanton -- Ceremonies of the alphabet : female grandmatologies and the female authorgraph / Sandra Caruso Mortola Gilbert and Susan Dreyfuss David Gubar -- The female hand in Heian Japan : a first reading / Richard Bowring -- Autobiography of a new 'creatur' : female spirituality, selfhood, and authorship in "The book of Margery Kempe" / Janel M. Mueller -- To restore honor and fortune : "The autobiography of Leonor López de Córdoba" / Amy Katz Kaminsky and Elaine Dorough Johnson -- Artemisia Gentileschi : the artist's autograph in letters and paintings / Mary D. Garrard -- Giving weight to words : Madame de Sévigné's letters to her daughter / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- "My childhood years" : a memoir by Czarist cavalry officer, Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- Neither auction block nor pedestal : "The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady" / Frances Smith Foster -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : musician in her brother's shadow / Marcia J. Citron -- Women as law clerks : Catharine G. Waugh / Nancy F. Cott.

The female sociograph : the theater of Virginia Woolf's letters / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Of sparrows and condors : the autobiography of Eva Perón / Marysa Navarro -- "Difficult journey-- mountainous journey", the memoirs of Fadwa Tuqan / Donna Robinson Divine -- Women and autobiography at author's expense / Philippe Lejeune -- My memory's hyperbole / Julia Kristeva.