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Templates for Authorship : American Women's Literary Autobiography of the 1930s /

"As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that cr...

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Autor principal: Petrie, Windy Counsell (Autor, VerfasserIn.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst University of Massachusetts Press 2021
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520 |a "As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that created an unprecedented boom in American women's literary autobiography. Windy Counsell Petrie considers twelve autobiographies from a diverse group of writers, ranging from highbrow modernists such as Gertrude Stein and Harriet Monroe to popular fiction writers like Edith Wharton and Edna Ferber, and lesser known figures such as Grace King and Carolyn Wells. Since there were few existing examples of women's literary autobiography, these writers found themselves marketed and interpreted within four cultural templates: the artist, the activist, the professional, and the celebrity. As they wrote their life stories, the women adapted these templates to counter unwanted interpretations and resist the sentimental feminine traditions of previous generations with innovative strategies of deferral, elision, comedy, and collaboration. This accessible study contends that writing autobiography offered each of these writers an opportunity to define and defend her own literary legacy" 
520 |a Introduction: American Women's Literary Autobiography in the Depression-Era Marketplace -- The Artist's Soul or the Woman's Life: Renunciation in Edith Wharton's A Backward Glance and Grace King's Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters -- Daring Denunciations: Celebrity Drama in Gertrude Atherton's Adventures of a Novelist and Margaret Anderson's My Thirty Year's War -- Refusing Nostalgia, Denying Desire: Didactic Activism in the Autobiographies of Margaret Deland and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Women of Vision: Pioneering Collaborations in Mary Austin's Earth Horizon and Harriet Monroe's A Poet's Life -- American Everywomen: Middlebrow Professionalism in Mary Roberts Rinehart's My Story and Edna Ferber's A Peculiar Treasure -- Strategic Diversions: The Veiled Autobiographies of Gertrude Stein and Carolyn Wells -- Epilogue: Portraits of the Artist as an Old Woman. 
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