Lacework or mirror? : Diary poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley / / by Magdalena Ożarska

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791222203321
• Autore: Ożarska Magdalena
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4438-5573-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.6
• Soggetti: Diaries - Authorship
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME AND SUBJECT INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley sets out to determine whether each of the diaries by three female writers - namely, Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley - approximates the Philippe-Lejeunean concept of the diary as lacework or the more sweeping view, typical of the broadly conceived autobiography, which Georges Gusdorf famously likened to the mirror. The author explores Burney's, Wordsworth's and Shelley's attempts at co...