Private Voices, Public Lives Women Speak on the Literary Life Edited by Nancy Owen Nelson Foreword by Jane P. Tompkins

Interweaving the personal, private voice with scholarly, public intent, Nelson and the other contributors argue for a more interactive and cooperative approach to the teaching, reading, critiquing, and writing of literature.

These essays are a direct result of the desire by many women within the academic community to break free of what has been called the "masculine" or "adversary" mode of literary criticism.

Private Voices, Public Lives is of critical importance to readers, teachers, reviewers, and critics. The essays incorporate ideas on current issues of autobiography, women's voice, reader response, diversity, and gender.

"Part I: The Work/Love Paradigm," includes essays on Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and others.

"Part II: The Text as Mirror," includes essays on Adrienne Rich, Amy Tan, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Kathleen Norris, and others.

"Part III: Teaching and Writing the Self" includes essays on Dr. Benjamin Spock, Virginia Woolf, Hart Crane, and others.

Contributors: Lynn Z. Bloom, Bonnie Braendlin, Carol S. Chadwick, Beverly Conner, Barbara DiBernard, Ann Fisher-Worth, Betty S. Flowers, Melody Graulich, Lois Hassan, Julie Houston, Olga Klekner, Catherine Lamb, Charlotte S. McClure, Susan Naramore Maher, Elsie F. Mayer, Nancy Pagh, Sandra Parker, Michele Potter, Ann L. Putnam, Ann Romines, Susan J. Rosowski, Jo C. Searles, Grace Stewart.

NANCY OWEN NELSON Taught at Auburn University, Albion College, and Augustanta before accepting her present position at Henry Ford Community College.

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Private Voices, Public Lives
ISBN 0-929398-88-2 paper $18.95s

6x9. 319pp. Bib. Index.
Women's Studies. Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism.
Western Writing and Criticism.

Publication Date: June 1995.

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