Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Catherine Delafield

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By Catherine Delafield

utilizing deepest diary writing as her version, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural value of nineteenth-century women's writing and studying practices. starting with an exam of non-fictional diaries and the perform of diary-writing, she assesses the interplay among the fictitious diary and other kinds of literary creation resembling epistolary narrative, the periodical, the real rfile and sensation fiction. The discrepancies among the personal diary and its use as a story equipment are explored in the course of the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. The ideological functionality of the diary, Delafield indicates, produces a clash in fictional narrative among that diary's obtained use as a family and religious list and its authority as a life-writing chance for girls. Delafield considers girls as writers, readers, and matters and contextualizes her research inside nineteenth-century analyzing perform. She demonstrates ways that ladies may possibly turns into performers in their personal tale via a story technique which used to be approved by way of their femininity and whilst allowed them to problem the parable of family womanhood.

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