Private Lives/Public Texts: Women’s Diary Literature
Guest Editor: Elizabeth Podnieks
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Private Lives/Public Texts: Women’s Diary Literature” by Elizabeth Podnieks
“Whose Diary Is It, Anyway? Issues of Agency, Authority, Ownership” by Suzanne L. Bunkers
“Shifting the Focus: Anne Lister as Pillar of Conservatism” by Caroline L. Eisner
“‘The Uncertainty of the End Keeps Up the Interest’: Maria Graham’s Journal of a Residence in Chile as Life Writing” by Jennifer Hayward
“Neatly-Penned Memorials: Dora Wordsworth’s Journal of 1828 and the Community of Authorship” by Judith W. Page
“Emily Dickinson’s Country Kin: Variorum Diarist Emily Hawley Gillespie” by Judy-Nolte Temple
“Between Love and Hate, Black and White: Narcissism and Double-Consciousness in the Diaries of Alice Dunbar-Nelson” by Kristina Brooks
“Web Diaries, Cyber Selves, and Global Intimacy: Surfing SecraTerri’s *FootNotes*” by Elizabeth Podnieks
Reviews
The Face of Exile: Autobiographical Journeys by Judith M. Melton (U of Iowa P, 1998). Reviewed by Cynthia Merrill
Telling Women’s Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text by Judy Long (New York UP, 1999). Reviewed by Kristi Siegel
Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Scott E. Casper (U of North Carolina P, 1999). Reviewed by Michael J. Kiskis
Availability
In Print: $15/$30
