{"product_id":"the-female-autograph-theory-and-practice-of-autobiography-from-the-tenth-to-the-twentieth-century-0226771210","title":"The Female Autograph: Theory and Practice of Autobiography from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226771210\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stanton, Domna C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese original essays comprise a fascinating investigation into women's strategies for writing the self-constructing the female subject through autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries. The collection contains theoretical essays by Donna Stanton, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gilbert, and Susan Gubar; chapters on specific issues raised by women's autographs, such as Richard Bowring's study of tenth-century Japanese diaries or Janel Mueller's on The Book of Margery Kempe; and annotated autobiographical fragments, including texts by Julia Kristeva, by a woman who became a czarist cavalry officer, and by a contemporary Palestinian poet. There are also chapters on the seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi; Mme de. Svign; Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny Hensel; the black minister Jarena Lee; Virginia Woolf; and Eva Peron. The result is a \"conversation\" between writers and critics across cultural and temporal boundaries. Stanton's essay plays off Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Kristeva begins with a reading of de Beauvoir, while a self-published French woman writes to defend the joys of family life against the author of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51892784955680,"sku":"NEW0226771210","price":57.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41XQ1FF5DCL.jpg?v=1781989404","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-female-autograph-theory-and-practice-of-autobiography-from-the-tenth-to-the-twentieth-century-0226771210","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}