Templates for authorship : American women's literary autobiography of the 1930s / Windy Counsell Petrie.

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"As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that created...

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Main Author: Petrie, Windy Counsell (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Women authors > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form > History and criticism.
American prose literature.
American prose literature > Women authors.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Biography as a literary form.
Women authors, American > Biography.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Biography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:x, 306 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: American Women's Literary Autobiography in the Depression-Era Marketplace
  • The Artist's Soul or the Woman's Life: Renunciation in Edith Wharton's A Backward Glance and Grace King's Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters
  • Daring Denunciations: Celebrity Drama in Gertrude Atherton's Adventures of a Novelist and Margaret Anderson's My Thirty Year's War
  • Refusing Nostalgia, Denying Desire: Didactic Activism in the Autobiographies of Margaret Deland and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Women of Vision: Pioneering Collaborations in Mary Austin's Earth Horizon and Harriet Monroe's A Poet's Life
  • American Everywomen: Middlebrow Professionalism in Mary Roberts Rinehart's My Story and Edna Ferber's A Peculiar Treasure
  • Strategic Diversions: The Veiled Autobiographies of Gertrude Stein and Carolyn Wells
  • Epilogue: Portraits of the Artist as an Old Woman.