Linda H Peterson Traditions of Vict...

Linda H Peterson Traditions of Victorian Women Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999 256 pp ISBN 0-8139-1883-4 $3850

When discussing women's autobiography, what emphasis should we place upon the issue of gender itself? This is the question which Linda Peterson raises at the beginning of her intelligent and provocative application of mind Traditions of Victorian Women Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. And the answer that she propounds from the start is that any like emphasis should be a cautious united Gender may ...