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- catalog abstract ""Virginia Woolf's story "The Legacy" describes a self-absorbed widower's all-too-typical response to the fifteen-volume diary left by his wife: he dismisses it as "nothing in particular." In contrast to that character's trivializing, contemporary feminist scholars have found diaries to be a rich resource for investigating the lives of "ordinary" women. No other documents reveal so completely what one scholar has called "life lived as a process."" "In this book, Amy L. Wink offers a probing examination of diaries kept by nineteenth-century American women. Her sources include accounts by women who chronicled their lives on the Overland Trail, the journals of two women married sequentially to the same psychologically abusive man, and the diaries of Confederate women who used their writings to comprehend their emotional and spiritual responses to the turmoil of the Civil War. As Wink notes, such writings demonstrate not only what these women experienced but also how they dealt with and understood that experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12093718.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In this book, Amy L. Wink offers a probing examination of diaries kept by nineteenth-century American women. Her sources include accounts by women who chronicled their lives on the Overland Trail, the journals of two women married sequentially to the same psychologically abusive man, and the diaries of Confederate women who used their writings to comprehend their emotional and spiritual responses to the turmoil of the Civil War. As Wink notes, such writings demonstrate not only what these women experienced but also how they dealt with and understood that experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Virginia Woolf's story "The Legacy" describes a self-absorbed widower's all-too-typical response to the fifteen-volume diary left by his wife: he dismisses it as "nothing in particular." In contrast to that character's trivializing, contemporary feminist scholars have found diaries to be a rich resource for investigating the lives of "ordinary" women. No other documents reveal so completely what one scholar has called "life lived as a process.""".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-155) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reading Women in the Act of Writing -- Written into the Landscape: Negotiating Place and Identity in Women's Overland Trail Diaries -- Narratives of Resistance: Negotiating Abuse and the Endangered Self -- "When shall this warfare in my soul be ended?": Negotiating Private Conflict and Public Crisis -- Something in Particular: Writing, Journals, and the Evidence of Presence.".
- catalog extent "xxxvi, 162 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1572331453 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "818/.303099287 21".
- catalog subject "American diaries History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American diaries Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Autobiography Women authors.".
- catalog subject "PS409 .W56 2001".
- catalog subject "Women United States Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Women United States History 19th century Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reading Women in the Act of Writing -- Written into the Landscape: Negotiating Place and Identity in Women's Overland Trail Diaries -- Narratives of Resistance: Negotiating Abuse and the Endangered Self -- "When shall this warfare in my soul be ended?": Negotiating Private Conflict and Public Crisis -- Something in Particular: Writing, Journals, and the Evidence of Presence.".
- catalog title "She left nothing in particular : the autobiographical legacy of nineteenth-century women's diaries / Amy L. Wink.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".