TY - BOOK AU - Podnieks,Elizabeth TI - Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin SN - 9780773568242 AV - PR908 .P53 2000 U1 - 828/.91203099287 PY - 2000/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Diaries KW - Smart, Elizabeth,--1913-1986--Diaries KW - White, Antonia,--1899-1980--Diaries KW - Nin, Anais,--1903-1977--Diaries KW - English diaries--Women authors--History and criticism KW - Authors, English--20th century--Diaries--History and criticism KW - Authors, American--20th century--Diaries--History and criticism KW - Authors, Canadian--20th century--Diaries--History and criticism KW - Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century KW - Diaries--Women authors--History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain KW - Modernism (Literature)--United States KW - Modernism (Literature)--Canada KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Blurring Boundaries: Mapping the Diary as Autobiography and Fiction -- 2 "That profoundly female, and feminist, genre -- 3 Life Writing a Modernist Text -- 4 Virginia Woolf's Diary: "the proper stuff of fiction -- 5 "Still waiting for revelation: key to unlock": The Diaries of Antonia White, A Literary Case Study -- 6 "Keep out / Keep out / Your snooting snout": The Irresistible Diaries of Elizabeth Smart -- 7 "I was born to hear applause": Self-Promotion and Performance in the Diaries of Anai's Nin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y N2 - In contrast to autobiographies, which are intended for a public audience and can be read as a novel, diaries have traditionally been thought of as the private record of a person's life. In Daily Modernism Elizabeth Podnieks shows that the diary can and should be read as both autobiography and fiction UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3330951 ER -