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The Female Appeal Memoir: Genre and Female Literary Tradition in Eighteenth-Century England

Breashears turns to the question of genre, arguing that one set of these writings forms a distinct subgenre of memoir that she calls the appeal memoir: a self-authorized memoir that narrates peculiarly female distresses and appeals to the public for sympathy or aid.

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Published in:	Modern philology 2010-05, Vol.107 (4), p.607-631
Main Author:	Breashears, Caroline
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Subjects:	Anecdotes Autobiographies Biography English literature European history Females Husbands Literary criticism Literary history Memoirs Narratives Poetry Theater
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