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Product Description: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writerâs thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diaristâs true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential...read more
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9780415998314, titled "Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers¦ Diaries, 1915-1962" | Routledge, May 26, 2010, cover price $149.00 | also contains Diary Poetics | About this edition: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writerâs thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diaristâs true self.
Paperback:
9781138883611, titled "Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writersâ Diaries 1915-1962" | Routledge, April 23, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writerâs thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diaristâs true self.
Product Description: Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today...read more
Hardcover:
9780230115866 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2011), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Product Description: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writerâs thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diaristâs true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential...read more
Hardcover:
9780415998314, titled "Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers¦ Diaries, 1915-1962" | Routledge, May 26, 2010, cover price $149.00 | also contains Diary Poetics: Form and Style in WritersÝ Diaries, 1915-1962 | About this edition: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writerâs thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diaristâs true self.
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9780813926124 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $65.00
Paperback:
9780813926131 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $25.00
Product Description: In this book readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters; the books written by British men and women about their experience in the Indian subcontinent. Over forty individual works are surveyed, covering the time period from when the East India Company began consolidating its powers to the eve of the Mutiny...read more
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9780195661149 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this book readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters; the books written by British men and women about their experience in the Indian subcontinent.
Paperback:
9780195682861, titled "A Various Universe: A Study of the Journals And Memoirs of British Men And Women in the Indian Subcontinent, 1765-1856" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 6, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this book readers are invited to explore a fascinating but neglected field of English letters; the books written by British men and women about their experience in the Indian subcontinent.
The Whitbread Award-winning biography of the master diarist and chronicler of Restoration London draws on the famous diaries, as well as on other sources and period material, to furnish a candid chronicle of the life and times of Samuel Pepys, answering questions about his relations with women, triumphs and near disasters, youth, and other lesser known aspects of his life. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780375411434 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography of the master diarist and chronicler of Restoration London draws on the famous diaries, as well as on other sources and period material, to furnish a candid chronicle of the life and times of Samuel Pepys.
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9780375725531 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 2003), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A biography of the master diarist and chronicler of Restoration London draws on the famous diaries, as well as on other sources and period material, to furnish a candid chronicle of the life and times of Samuel Pepys.
Product Description: "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and yearnings, the confessions and desires, revealed in the pages of a diary...read more
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9780385478298 | Doubleday, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Examines the diaries of famous writers, including Marjory Fleming, Sonya Tolstoy, Anais Nin, and May Sarton, and shows how these writers have used the diary
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9780385478304 | Anchor Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?
Hardcover:
9780805769791 | Upd sub edition (Twayne Pub, October 1, 1989), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Book by Taylor, Ivan E.
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9780226577425 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A biography based upon a re-examination of the diaries following the expiry of the embargo, contains further quotation, but no extended passages.
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9780836966237 | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1923), cover price $28.95
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