商品簡介
Scholars of English literature explore the role of the body in autobiography that focuses in turn on the literary life, women, adoption and the family, and disability and disfigurement. Among specific topics are Edith Wharton and the body aesthetic, Gertrude Stein's body in occupied France, the fit and athletic body in new women autobiographies, Frank Hamilton Cushing's disappearing body, images of the family body in the adoptee search narrative, refiguring the masculine body in the autobiographies of disabled American men, the broken mirror of identity in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face, and filial narratives of paternal dementia. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
