Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers Diaries

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writers thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarists true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different pr