As Told by Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969

ISBN-13: 9780299339104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Lorna Martens

Spis treści

• Introduction
• 1. Beginnings: Women’s Childhood Autobiography Prior to World War I
• Women’s Childhood Autobiography in France
• Mother-DaughterConflict
• Remembering
• The Self-Portrait
• The Working-Class Woman
• Women’s Childhood Autobiography in England, the United States, Australia, and Ireland
• "We"
• The Study
• Short Pieces
• The Victim
• Capturing the Child's Vision
• The Inner Life of the Child
• Mixing Genres
• Women’s Childhood Autobiography Elsewhere around 1900
• In sum
• 2. The Interwar Years: Memoirs and Semi-Memoirs
• Memoirs
• Semi-Memoirs
• 1935
• “Splendor in the Grass”
• Humor
• Souvenirs
• In sum
• 3. The Interwar Years: The Golden Age of Psychological Self-Portraiture
• Self-portraits in the 1920s
• How I Became What I Became
• In YourFace
• Self-Expression in the 1930s
• Self-Assertion
• The Child’s Vision
• The Study
• In sum
• 4. Women’s Childhood Autobiography during World War II
• Semi-Memoirs
• Self-Focused Works
• Self-Assertion
• Remembering
• The Family
• Nest and the Challenges beyond It
• In sum
• 5. Women’s Childhood Autobiography from the End of the Second World War through the 1960s
• Autobiographies of Abuse
• Self-Focused Autobiographies
• Bildungsroman
• Relationships
• The Child’s Perspective
• A Stylistic Mix
• In sum
• Conclusion
• Bibliography of Women’s Childhood Autobiographies to 1969
• Notes