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The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting

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  1. Anne Collett
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  2. Louise D’Arcens
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. ‘Femmes a part’: Unsociable Sociability, Women, Lifewriting

    • Louise D’Arcens, Anne Collett
    Pages 1-17

  3. ‘Je, Christine’: Christine de Pizan’s Autobiographical Topoi

    • Louise D’Arcens
    Pages 18-36

  4. Law, Gender and Print Culture in the Lifewriting of Eliza Frances Robertson

    • Sarah Ailwood
    Pages 37-53

  5. ‘Some Stories Need to Be Told, Then Told Again’: Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe

    • Michael Jacklin
    Pages 54-70

  6. The Scripted Life of Peig Sayers

    • Irene Lucchitti
    Pages 71-88

  7. ‘Yet Thou Did Deliver Me’: The Exemplary Life of Alice Thornton

    • Anne Lear
    Pages 89-106

  8. Size Matters: The Oppositional Self-Portraiture of Emily Carr

    • Anne Collett
    Pages 107-127

  9. A Literary Fortune: Mary Fortune’s Life in the Colonial Periodical Press

    • Megan Brown
    Pages 128-147

  10. ‘You for Whom I Wrote’: Renée Vivien, H.D. and the Roman à Clef

    • Melissa Boyde
    Pages 148-167

  11. Writing Food Writing Fiction Writing Life: Marion Halligan’s Memoirs

    • Dorothy Jones
    Pages 168-186

  12. Writing as Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres da Costa and Alice Pung

    • Wenche Ommundsen
    Pages 187-203

  13. The Language of Recognition: Carolyn Slaughter and Alexandra Fuller

    • Tony Simoes da Silva
    Pages 204-220

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-228
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About this book

By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.

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'The volume advances the established feminist project to make visible women whose writing may not be well known, and it accomplishes this purpose admirably within the field of lifewriting.' - Review of English Studies

About the authors

SARAH AILWOOD Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, the University of Canberra, Australia MELISSA BOYDE Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia MICHAEL JACKLIN Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia DOROTHY JONES Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Wollongong, Australia ANNE LEAR Senior Lecturer in the English Literatures Program, University of Wollongong, Australia IRENE LUCCHITTI Fellow in English, University of Wollongong, Australia WENCHE OMMUNSDEN Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia TONY SIMOES DA SILVA Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting

  • Editors: Anne Collett, Louise D’Arcens

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294868

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24647-8Published: 27 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31959-6Published: 01 January 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29486-8Published: 27 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 228

  • Topics: Fiction, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

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