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Templates for Authorship

Windy Counsell Petrie
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American literary modernity
American women authors
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authorship and self-promotion
autobiography as resistance
book history
Carolyn Wells
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cultural templates of femininity
Edith Wharton
Edna Ferber
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female creative autonomy
female identity formation
female intellectuals
female self-representation
feminist interpretations of autobiography
feminist literary history
feminist literary scholarship
feminist modernism
feminist narrative strategies
gender and authorship
gender and genre
gender and literary institutions
gender and the marketplace
gendered cultural expectations
gendered readership
Gertrude Stein
Grace King
Harriet Monroe
life narratives by women
life writing
life writing as art
literary autobiography
literary legacy and reputation
literary self-fashioning
literary studies
memoir
modernist autobiography
modernist literature
professional women writers
redefining womanhood through writing
self-authored identity
self-construction in women's writing
twentieth-century literature
twentieth-century women intellectuals
women and artistic identity
women and celebrity culture
women and cultural authority
women and personal narrative
women and self-definition
women and social activism
women and the politics of self-representation
women in publishing
women writers
women writers of the 1930s
women's authorship
women's autobiography
women's creative labor
women's cultural production
women's history in literature
women's humor and irony
women's life writing
women's literary markets
women's narrative experimentation
women's negotiation of fame
women's publishing networks
women's role in literary culture
women's voices in literature

Product details

  • ISBN 9781625345523
  • Weight: 485g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
As autobiographies by famous women like Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart became bestsellers in the 1930s, American publishers sought out literary autobiographies from female novelists, poets, salon hosts, and editors. Templates for Authorship analyzes the market and cultural forces that created an unprecedented boom in American women's literary autobiography.

Windy Counsell Petrie considers twelve autobiographies from a diverse group of writers, ranging from highbrow modernists such as Gertrude Stein and Harriet Monroe to popular fiction writers like Edith Wharton and Edna Ferber, and lesser known figures such as Grace King and Carolyn Wells. Since there were few existing examples of women's literary autobiography, these writers found themselves marketed and interpreted within four cultural templates: the artist, the activist, the professional, and the celebrity. As they wrote their life stories, the women adapted these templates to counter unwanted interpretations and resist the sentimental feminine traditions of previous generations with innovative strategies of deferral, elision, comedy, and collaboration. This accessible study contends that writing autobiography offered each of these writers an opportunity to define and defend her own literary legacy.
About Windy Counsell Petrie
Windy Counsell Petrie is professor and chair of English at Azusa Pacific University.

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