03093nam 2200589 450 991081110090332120230817192214.01-5261-0128-91-5261-0127-010.7765/9781526101273(CKB)4100000007814800(MiAaPQ)EBC5731789(OCoLC)1089931304(MdBmJHUP)muse77812(Au-PeEL)EBL5731789(DE-B1597)659149(DE-B1597)9781526101273(EXLCZ)99410000000781480020190403d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRomantic women's life writing reputation and afterlife /Susan CivaleManchester :Manchester University Press,2019.1 online resource (301 pages)1-5261-0116-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman': Frances Burney's Diary (1842-46) and the reputation of women's life writing -- 'A man in love': Revealing the unseen Mary Wollstonecraft -- 'Beyond the power of utterance': Reading the gaps in Mary Robinson's Memoirs (1801) -- 'By a happy genius, I overcame all these troubles': Mary Hays and the struggle for self-representation -- Coda: Virginia Woolf's Common reader essays and the legacy of women's life writing -- Select bibliography -- Index.This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing--a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification--in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and cricitismauthorship.auto/biography.celebrity.genre.life writing.literary afterlife.nineteenth century.reception.reputation.self-fashioning.English literatureWomen authorsHistory and cricitism.823.6Civale Susan1663448MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811100903321Romantic women's life writing4020771UNINA