THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SUBJECT

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5237-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Co-recipient of the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Association for Eighteenth Century Studies

"An exemplary model of political criticism." -Eighteenth-Century Fiction

"The Autobiographical Subject is rich and richly rewarding for scholars of the eighteenth century. It deserves to be read by everyone who thinks about autobiographical practice." -Sidonie Smith, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies

"Acutely analyzes the construction of gendered character in canonical British autobiographical texts and provides provocative explorations outside the canon, particularly among first-person narratives by women." -Diacritics

"The Autobiographical Subject, with its combination of provocative theory and sound scholarship, deserves a wide readership. Felicity Nussbaum's insights demand the attention of eighteenth-century scholars, feminist critics, and cultural historians, while the central questions raised by the book—how to define the 'self'? why write, why revise, and especially, why publish an autobiography?—are of interest to everyone." -Review of English Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nussbaum, Felicity A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Ideology of Gene
Chapter 2. The Politics of Subjectivity
Chapter 3. Dissenting Subjects: Bunyan's Grace Abounding
Chapter 4. Methodized Subjects: Johns Wesley's Journals
Chapter 5. Manly Subjects: Boswell's Journals and The Life of Johnson
Chapter 6. The Gender of Character
Chapter 7. "Of Woman's Seed": Women's Spiritual Autobiograohies
Chapter 8. Heteroclites: The Scandalous Memoirs
Chapter 9. Managing Women: Thrale's "Family Book" and Thraliana
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nussbaum, Felicity A.
Felicity A. Nussbaum is a professor of English at the University of California-Los Angeles, the author of The Limits of the Human (2003), Torrid Zones (1995), and the editor of The Autobiographical Subject (1995), the latter two available from Johns Hopkins.

Felicity A. Nussbaum is professor of English and Women's Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include Torrid Zones, also from Johns Hopkins University Press.