New Essays on Life Writing and the Body - Softcover
In light of materialist revisions of the Cartesian dual self and the increased recognition of memoir and autobiography as a crucial cultural index, the physical body has emerged in the last twenty-five years as an increasingly inescapable object of inquiry, speculation, and theory that intersects all of the various subgenres of life writing. 'New Essays on Life Writing and the Body' thus offers a timely, original, focused, and yet appropriately interdisciplinary study of life writing. This collection brings together new work by established authorities in autobiography, such as Timothy Dow Adams, G. Thomas Couser, Cynthia Huff, and others, along with essays by emerging scholars in the field. Subjects range from new interpretations of well-known autobiographies by Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Lucy Grealy, as well as scholarly surveys of more recently defined subgenres, such as the numerous New Woman autobiographies of the late 19th century, adoption narratives, and sibling memoirs of the mentally impaired. Due to their wide, interdisciplinary focus, these essay will prove valuable not only to more traditional literary scholars interested in the classic literary autobiography but also to those in Women's Studies, Ethnic and African-American Studies, as well as in emerging fields such as Disability Studies and Cognitive Studies.
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About the Author:
Christopher Stuart is Katharine Pryor Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His previous publications have appeared in Critique, American Literary Realism, The Henry James Review, and other journals. Stephanie Todd is a PhD candidate in 19th century American Literature and Environmental Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of the Edith Wharton entry for the Encyclopedia of American Literature and is currently writing a dissertation on American women nature writers and the domestic narrative. She has also been working to recover Appalachian author Emma Bell Miles, and her work on Miles is being presented at both the American Literature Association's conference and the American Society for Literature and Environment's conference in 2009.
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- PublisherNot Avail
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1443808032
- ISBN 13 9781443808033
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages295
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