Daily Modernism : The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin.

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.

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.

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