Beschreibung:
Anne-Marie Millim is a research fellow at the University of Luxembourg.
Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues, played a crucial role in
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.