The Victorian Diary: Authorship and Emotional Labour

ISBN-13: 9780367879020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Anne-Marie Millim

Opis

Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues, played a crucial role in

Recenzje

’The Victorian Diary is a substantial achievement, fully justifying its concluding aspiration that it will further energise the field and thus extend it to other nonartists and workers (185).’ SHARP News ’...Victorian Diary is a welcome addition to an area that, despite the flourishing academic interest in life-writing, remains undertheorized.’ George Eliot Review

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Publicised emotion: emotional education in the diaries of Elizabeth Eastlake and Henry Crabb Robinson; Economies of emotion in the diaries of George Eliot and George Gissing; Photographic emotion: visual and temporal appropriation in John Ruskin’s diaries; The labour of resignation and assertion in the diaries of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edith Simcox; Epilogue: wholeness, complementation and self-signification; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Anne-Marie Millim is a research fellow at the University of Luxembourg.