Maternal rhetoric in Jane Addams's Twenty Years at Hull-House.(Critical essay)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

When Jane Addams (1860-1935) wrote Twenty Years at Hull-House in 1910, she understood autobiographies were deliberate constructions in the sense that an author depicts her identity and events in the text to shape the reader's perception: "It has ... been hard to determine what incidents and experiences should be selected for recital, and I have found that I might give an accurate report of each isolated event and yet give a totally misleading impression of the whole, solely by the selection of the incidents." (1) Addams suggests that the inclusion--or exclusion--of certain events ...

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