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How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that
introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary
writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across
history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose
to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some
diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How
has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions
like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary
for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary
manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the
impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad
personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson
also presents the diary's extensive influence upon literary
history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young
adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary
invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that
individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their
diaries.
Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant
conceptions of death and dying, Desiree Henderson examines literary
texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how
William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed
from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic
portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies
for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King Philip"
to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous
history; examines Frederick Douglass's use of the slave cemetery to
represent the costs of slavery for African American families;
suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War
cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war elegies; and
offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The
Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the
consequences of female writers claiming authority over the mourning
process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study
eloquently speaks to the ways in which authors adopted, revised, or
rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that
disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate
gender roles and sexual practices, national identity and
citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic
representation, and structures of authorship and literary
authority.
Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant
conceptions of death and dying, Desiree Henderson examines literary
texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how
William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed
from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic
portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies
for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King Philip"
to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous
history; examines Frederick Douglass's use of the slave cemetery to
represent the costs of slavery for African American families;
suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War
cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war elegies; and
offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The
Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the
consequences of female writers claiming authority over the mourning
process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study
eloquently speaks to the ways in which authors adopted, revised, or
rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that
disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate
gender roles and sexual practices, national identity and
citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic
representation, and structures of authorship and literary
authority.
How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that
introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary
writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across
history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose
to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some
diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How
has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions
like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary
for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary
manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the
impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad
personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson
also presents the diary's extensive influence upon literary
history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young
adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary
invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that
individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their
diaries.
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