LEADER 03093nam 2200589 450 001 9910793467503321 005 20230817192214.0 010 $a1-5261-0128-9 010 $a1-5261-0127-0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526101273 035 $a(CKB)4100000007814800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5731789 035 $a(OCoLC)1089931304 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77812 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5731789 035 $a(DE-B1597)659149 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526101273 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007814800 100 $a20190403d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRomantic women's life writing $ereputation and afterlife /$fSusan Civale 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) 311 $a1-5261-0116-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and cricitism 610 $aauthorship. 610 $aauto/biography. 610 $acelebrity. 610 $agenre. 610 $alife writing. 610 $aliterary afterlife. 610 $anineteenth century. 610 $areception. 610 $areputation. 610 $aself-fashioning. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and cricitism. 676 $a823.6 700 $aCivale$b Susan$01468208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793467503321 996 $aRomantic women's life writing$93679232 997 $aUNINA