Virginia Woolf And Her Female Contemporaries

Author : Julie Vandivere,Megan Hicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954088

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Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries by Julie Vandivere,Megan Hicks Pdf

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf?s writing alongside the work of other women writers during the first decades of the twentieth-century. This volume not only expands our understanding of the unprecedented number of female writers but also helps us comprehend the ways that these writers contributed and complicated modernist literature. It explores how burgeoning communities and enclaves of women writers intersected with and coexisted alongside Virginia Woolf and emphasizes both the development of enclaves and specific female subcultures or individual writers who were contemporaneous with Virginia Woolf. The essays in the first section,?Who Are Virginia Woolf?s Female Contemporaries,? explore the boundaries of contemporaneity by considering women across nation, time, and class. The second section,?Cultural Contexts,? explores Woolf?s connections to early twentieth-century culture such as film and book societies. The two final sections,?Recovery and Recuperation,? and?Connections Between Canonical Writers,? illuminate the interlocking network of women writers and artists, the latter through women who have been bereft of scholarly attention and the former through women who have received more scholarly attention.

Author : Julie Vandivere,Meghan M. Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 178694412X

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Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries by Julie Vandivere,Meghan M. Hicks Pdf

'Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries' helps us comprehend the ways that the women writers and artists contributed to and complicated modernism by contextualizing them alongside Woolf's work.

Author : Julie Vandivere,Megan Hicks
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954095

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Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries by Julie Vandivere,Megan Hicks Pdf

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries helps us comprehend the ways that women writers and artists contributed to and complicated modernism by contextualizing them alongside Woolf's work.

Author : Gillian Gill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781328683953

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Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill Pdf

An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sistersStella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356843387

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857088819

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked by The Guardian newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World's Best Non-fiction Books. Part of the bestselling Capstone series, this collectible, hard-back edition of A Room of One’s Own includes an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve that explains the book's place in modernist literature and why it still resonates with contemporary readers. Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was one of the most forward-thinking English writers of her time. Author of the classic novels Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies, and a member of the celebrated Bloomsbury Set of intellectuals and artists. Discover why A Room of One's Own is considered among the greatest and most influential works of female empowerment and creativity Learn why Woolf's classic has stood the test of time. Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition a permanent addition to your library Enjoy an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of the text to the concerns of today's audience Capstone Classics brings A Room of One's Own to a new generation of readers who can discover how Woolf's book broke new artistic ground and advanced the position of women writers and creatives around the world.

Author : Anne E. Fernald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192539632

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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf by Anne E. Fernald Pdf

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf's life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf's practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf's experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf's writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while 'Professions of Writing', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the TLS. The 'Contexts' section moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final section on afterlives demonstrates the many ways Woolf's reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0631180370

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Women & Fiction by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006475946

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Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in particular. This spectacular collection of essays and other writings does justice to those efforts, offering unique appraisals of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, the Duchess of Newcastle, Dorothy Richardson, Charlotte Bronte, and Katherine Mansfield, amongst many others. Gathered too, and using previously unpublished (sometimes even unsigned) journal extracts, are what will now become timeless commentaries on 'Women and Fiction', 'Professions for Women' and 'The Intellectual Status of Women'. More than half a century after the publication of A Room Of One's Own, distinguished scholar Michele Barrett cohesively brings together work which, throughout the years, has been scattered throughout many texts and many volumes. . . affording these very valuable writings the collective distinction they deserve at last.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781528792875

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Woolf on Women - A Collection of Essays by Virginia Woolf Pdf

"Woolf on Women" is a collection of Virginia Woolf’s essays about women (fictional, historical and those Woolf knew personally) and about how women should live. This compilation features essays that were published between 1924 and 1941 (the year of Woolf’s death) and includes work that was published posthumously. This book allows readers to catch a glimpse into Woolf’s mind, particularly her political, social and socio-economic opinions. It contains famous works such as ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1928), focusing on women’s lack of freedom both in the law and in their creative expression, ‘Professions for Women’ (1931), discussing the role of a housewife, and ‘Three Guineas’ (1938), the sequel to ‘A Room of One’s Own’, which explores anti-war themes. An essential read for fans of Woolf and those who want to take a deeper dive into her thoughts, this book is also the perfect gift for lovers of feminist literature. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and feminist pioneer. She was integral to the widespread use of the narrator style stream of consciousness as a literary technique. Some of her most notable work includes the novels 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing these essays in a brand-new collection for the enjoyment of collectors of Woolf’s books and those who are new to her work.

Author : Anne Besnault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000461886

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Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories by Anne Besnault Pdf

Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf’s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the "new": not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting "traditional" historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf’s historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to "think back through our mothers." Bringing together canonical texts such as Orlando (1928), A Room of One’s Own (1929), Three Guineas (1938) or Between the Acts (1941) and under-researched ones — among which stand Woolf’s essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women’s literature — this book argues that Woolf’s textual "conversations" with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poiesis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: "unwritten," open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.

Author : Helen Southworth
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9780814209646

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The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette by Helen Southworth Pdf

What might the author of Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own have in common with the author of the Claudine series and The Pure and the Impure? Resisting long-held interpretations that Colette and Virginia Woolf had little in common, Southworth shows here the links between the two famous writers, both real and imagined. Often cast in their diametrically opposed roles of elitist bluestocking and risque music hall performer, critics have overlooked the many ways in which the lives and works of Woolf and Colette intersect. This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the biographical, stylistic, and thematic ties that link the lives and works of Britain's and France's first ladies of letters of the early twentieth century. Situating the two writers within an international network of artists and literati, including Jacques-Emile Blanche, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge. Winnie de Polignac, Gisele Freund, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis, this study complicates conceptions of the differences--national, sexual, cultural, and intellectual--which have kept these two women apart by placing these same differences at its center. Southworth develops work already undertaken on Woolf's contacts with France and adds to the body of comparative work on Woolf and her contemporaries. This study also highlights as yet unexplored connections between Colette and her British and American peers. Southworth's book makes a significant contribution to gay and lesbian studies and the study of modernist culture. It also demonstrates the potential of social network theory for literary studies.

Author : Tim Smith-Laing,Fiona Robinson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351350068

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A Room of One's Own by Tim Smith-Laing,Fiona Robinson Pdf

A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the early 20th century, literary history presented so few examples of canonically 'great' women writers. The common prejudices of the time suggested this was caused by (and proof of) women's creative and intellectual inferiority to men. Woolf argued instead that it was to do with a very simple fact: across the centuries, male-dominated society had systematically prevented women from having the educational opportunities, private spaces and economic independence to produce great art. At a time when 'art' was commonly considered to be a province of the mind that had no relation to economic circumstances, this was a novel proposal. More novel, though, was Woolf's manner of arguing and proving her contentions: through a fictional account of the limits placed on even the most privileged women in everyday existence. An impressive early example of cultural materialism, A Room of One's Own is an exemplary encapsulation of creative thinking.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0156936585

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Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf Pdf

"Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf wrote extensively and persuasively about the lack of professional and educational opportunities for women. Drawing on critical essays, articles, journal entries, and Woolf's well-known feminist pieces, this is a fascinating gathering of her shorter pieces on women as writers and the evolution of the female literary tradition. Not only are these pieces thought provoking in themselves, but they also shed light on Woolf's inner life and, viewed as a whole, give both the beginning and experienced Woolf reader a greatly expanded understanding of her vision" --from back cover.

Author : Nóra Séllei
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019394662

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Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf by Nóra Séllei Pdf

Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf were bound together by a tie alternately characterised as a «curious friendship» and an «uneasy sisterhood». Relying on feminist and poststructural critiques of thinking about writing and writers in terms of autonomous creative subjects, the book reconsiders the relationship between these writers from the biographical and the literary points of view. Their respective self-created models show the multiplicity within the paradigm of the «New Woman», and correspond with their divergent but complementary female modernisms. Mansfield's thematic femininity and Woolf's feminine textuality are integrated into contemporary feminist theory and women writers' creative practice: like Mansfield, they utter previously unutterable experiences but in a language that flows like Woolf's sentences.