Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography /

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"This is the first book-length study of the significance of the fictional autobiography in the Victorian understanding of selfhood. Jane Eyre, Villette, David Copperfield, Esther's portions of Bleak House, and other fictional autobiographies of the era subtly but persistently illustrate th...

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Main Author: Pennington, Heidi L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
English fiction.
Autobiographical fiction, English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Narration.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction, English > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1-The Victorian Fictional Autobiography in Context: Fiction, Reference, and Reader Expectations
  • Chapter 2-The Author and the Reader: The Individual and (as) Narrative Community
  • Chapter 3-Domestic Interiors and the Fictionality of the Domestic
  • Chapter 4-"To Be Home-sick, One Must Have a Home": Difficult Domesticity and Controlling Collaboration in Copperfield and Villette
  • Coda-Fiction and Selfhood in the Twenty-First Century.

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