Personal Effects - Reading the Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (Hardcover)

Five months before her death of tuberculosis in 1884, Marie Bashkirtseff, an aspiring artist and a would-be mondaine, composed a preface to her personal diary. In it, she brazenly declared that in the event of her early death her diary was to be published. Three years later, a truncated version of the diary appeared. Translated into English, championed by Barres and Gladstone, taken up by young diarists from France to the US, the diary created a major sensation, remaining standard reading for young women in both the anglophone and francophone worlds until the 1930s. The first full-length study to explore the questions that reading Bashkirtseff s journal raises with respect to both genre and gender construction, Personal Effects examines the genre and gender issues at stake in Bashkirtseff s bid to go public with the personal, and explores the discursive strategies by which Bashkirtseff writes her journal from the private context of its keeping to a public context of reading. Wilson reads the diary as a performance of writing, one in which a display of the personal mediates between the subjective and the social, the private and the public.

General

Imprint:	Legenda
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Sonia Wilson
Dimensions:	251 x 171 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	170
ISBN-13:	978-1-906540-13-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-906540-13-6
Barcode:	9781906540135

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