{"product_id":"the-diary-the-epic-of-everyday-life-9780253046994","title":"The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. \u003ci\u003eThe Diary\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. \u003ci\u003eThe Diary\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth R. Baer is Research Professor of English and African Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She is co-editor (with Hester Baer) of \u003ci\u003eShadows on My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Myrna Goldenberg) of \u003ci\u003eExperience and Expression \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golem Redux\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Genocidal Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baker is Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex, England, specializing in the history of long eighteenth century Britain and born digital archives and archiving circa 1990 to the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSergio da Silva Barcellos is Post-Doctorate at Universidade Unigranrio, Rio de Janeiro, through the PNPD program of Capes Foundation, from the Ministry of Education of Brazil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBatsheva Ben-Amos\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature in the College of Professional and Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and a practicing clinician and has written about Holocaust diaries. \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Dan Ben-Amos\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Folklore and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous titles, including \u003ci\u003eSweet Words\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFolklore in Context\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJewish Folk Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, (with Jerome Mintz) \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of the Baal Shem Tov\u003c\/i\u003e, (with Kenneth S. Goldstein) \u003ci\u003eFolklore: Performance and Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFolklore Genres\u003c\/i\u003e, and volumes 1 through 3 of \u003ci\u003eFolktales of the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of the \u003ci\u003eRafael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e at Wayne State University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Bogaert is an active member of APA (Association pout l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographic). She curated the exhibition at the Biblioteque Municipale de Lyon dedicated to the diary and is co-author (with Philippe Lejeune) of \u003ci\u003eHistoire D'une Pratique, Un Journal AÌ Soi.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Braud is Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour in France. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLa Forme des jours\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eJournaux intimes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLena Buford is Director of Finance for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She formerly maintained blogs at the urls www.garbaj.com and www.fatdiaries.com, ghosts of which can still be found via the Internet Archive's \"Wayback Machine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne L. Bunkers is Professor Emerita of English at Minnesota State University-Mankato. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Susanna\u003c\/i\u003e, co-author (with Frank W. Klein) of \u003ci\u003eGood Earth, Black Soil\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eDiaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern Sam\u003c\/i\u003epler, \u003ci\u003eA Pioneer Farm Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\"All Will Yet Be Well\" The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1955\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor (with Cynthia Huff) of \u003ci\u003eInscribing the Daily\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKylie Cardell is Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-editor (with Kate Douglas) of \u003ci\u003eTelling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Carter is Associate Vice President of Teaching and Learning at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada: 1830-1996\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Doll is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. He co-edited (with Jessica Munns) \u003ci\u003eRecording and Reordering: Essays on the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Diary and Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames M. Hargett teaches Chinese Language and Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eStairway to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Journey to the Summit of Mount Emei\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRiding the River Home\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126-1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberly Harrison is Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida International University. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Jochen Hellbeck is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eStalingrad: the City that Defeated the Third Reich\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Desirée Henderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven E. Kagle is Professor Emeritus of English at Illinois State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiary Literature: 1620-1799\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEarly Nineteenth Century American Diary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLate Nineteenth Century American Diary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberly Katz is Professor of Middle East History at Towson University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eJordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Young Palestinian's Diary: The Life of Sami 'Amr\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeena Kurvet-Käosaar is Associate Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Tartu and Senior Researcher at the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia. She is the coeditor (with Paul Arthur) of a special volume of the journal, \u003ci\u003eLife Writing \u003c\/i\u003etitled, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Lives, Intimate Readings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilippe Lejeune is Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Université Paris-Nord. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Autobiography \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e On Diary\u003c\/i\u003e. He founded the French \u003ci\u003eAssociation pour l'autobiographie\u003c\/i\u003e (APA - the Association for Autobiography), which collects and archives unpublished ordinary autobiographical writings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDagmara Meijers-Tröller was an experienced translator from French into English. A member of the ATA, she was educated at Indiana University, Bloomington, Pantheon Sorbonne University, Paris, and London Metropolitan University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Ferris Motz is Emerita Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrue Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920 \u003c\/i\u003eand co-edited (with\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eJohn Nachbar) \u003ci\u003eEye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other titles.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English and Communication and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDaily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin \u003c\/i\u003eand the critical edition \u003ci\u003eRough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulie Rak is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eBoom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the coeditor (with Jeremy Popkin) of an English translation of Philippe Lejeune's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebook \u003ci\u003eOn Diary\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonard V. Smith is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBetween Mutiny and Obedience: The French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eFrance and the Great War, 1914-1918\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgnieszka Sobocinska is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVisiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with David Walker) of \u003ci\u003eAustralia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Françoise Simonet-Tenant is Professor of French Literature at the University of Rouen, France. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiary and Letters (1785-1939) or elective affinities\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of a \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Autobiography. Life Writing in the French Language\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is co-editor (with Hilde G. 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