226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Publicised emotion: emotional education in the diaries of Elizabeth Eastlake and Henry Crabb Robinson; Economies of emotion in the diaries of George Eliot and George Gissing; Photographic emotion: visual and temporal appropriation in John Ruskin’s diaries; The labour of resignation and assertion in the diaries of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edith Simcox; Epilogue: wholeness, complementation and self-signification; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Anne-Marie Millim is a research fellow at the University of Luxembourg.
’The Victorian Diary is a substantial achievement, fully justifying its concluding aspiration that it will further energise the field and thus extend it to other nonartists and workers (185).’ SHARP News ’...Victorian Diary is a welcome addition to an area that, despite the flourishing academic interest in life-writing, remains undertheorized.’ George Eliot Review
