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Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Author : Emily Blair
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791479926

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Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel by Emily Blair Pdf

In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf's fiction and her modernist manifestos. Moving between the Victorian and modernist periods, Blair looks at a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, including the literature of conduct and household management, as well as autobiography, essay, poetry, and fiction. She argues for a reevaluation of Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with English domesticity and female creativity by juxtaposing the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, two popular Victorian novelists, against Woolf's own novels and essays. Blair then traces unacknowledged lines of influence and complex interpretations that Woolf attempted to disavow. While reconsidering Woolf's analysis of women and fiction, Blair simultaneously deepens our appreciation of Woolf's work and advances our understanding of feminine aesthetics.

Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories

Author : Anne Besnault
Publisher : Among the Victorians and Modernists
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367354969

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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.

Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Author : ANNE. REUS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474485634

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Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers by ANNE. REUS Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography This book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters through her journalism, including case studies of Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. Woolf's responses to her literary predecessors provide new insights into her self-positioning within the literary canon and the interplay of biographical innovation and Victorian legacies in her non-fiction. This study demonstrates that Victorian narratives and tropes of female professionalism continue to shape Woolf's representations of nineteenth-century women writers even in her heyday of her Modernist fame. It contextualises the overt feminism of A Room of One's Own within Woolf's more ambiguous literary biography to argue for its status as a transitional, post-Victorian body of work. Anne Reus is an Independent Scholar. Her research interests are women's writing and life writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published on Margaret Oliphant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Virginia Woolf and she is co-editor of Virginia Woolf and Heritage (2017).

Virginia Woolf: The Moment & Other Essays

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547763154

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Virginia Woolf: The Moment & Other Essays by Virginia Woolf Pdf

A selection of twenty-nine essays. "[Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Virginia Woolf and Heritage

Author : Jane deGay,Tom Breckin,Anne Reus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954439

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Virginia Woolf and Heritage by Jane deGay,Tom Breckin,Anne Reus Pdf

This collection situates Woolf in relation to the past, exploring her rich and varied heritage from a variety of fields while also assessing her own literary and biographical legacy.

Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories

Author : Anne Besnault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547763079

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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Virginia Woolf Pdf

First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. Virginia Woolf was one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, transformed the art of fiction. The author of numerous novels and short stories, she was also an acknowledged master of the essay form, and an admired literary critic. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547404989

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Pdf

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality and a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. Virginia Woolf makes the connection between war and the economy and a woman's role (or lack there of) in both. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers

Author : Darya Protopopova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527527829

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Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers by Darya Protopopova Pdf

Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer. The book also examines British modernists’ fascination with Russian art, looking at parallels between Roger Fry’s articles on Russian Post-Impressionists and Woolf’s essays on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev.

The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

Author : Christine Alexander,Juliet McMaster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521812933

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The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf by Christine Alexander,Juliet McMaster Pdf

A collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Women and Fiction [A Room of One's Own]

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1614278210

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Women and Fiction [A Room of One's Own] by Virginia Woolf Pdf

2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. "Women and Fiction" was first published in the U.S. in Forum Magazine, a prominent literary journal of the 1920's It is the principle essay and title of a series of lectures Woolff delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. This essay and the Lectures would eventually be published as "A Room of One's Own" in 1929. In this essay Woolf traces the reasons for the very limited achievements among women novelists through the centuries. Why did they fail? They failed because they were not financially independent; they failed because they were not intellectually free; they failed because they were denied the fullest worldly experience. Mrs. Woolf imagines what would have happened to a hypothetical sister of Shakespeare (who possessed all his genius) because she lived in the eighteenth century; she insists that, whatever her gifts, no woman in that age of wife-beating could have written the plays. She shows what did happen in the nineteenth century to the Brontes and George Eliot because they lacked full participation in life; even George Eliot, the "emancipated" woman, lived with a man prosaically in St. John's Wood, while Tolstoy roamed the world and lived with gypsies; and "War and Peace" was as impossible for a woman to write then as "Lear" three centuries before. This short essays remains an important feminist text.

Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Author : Theodore Koulouris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317122685

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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf by Theodore Koulouris Pdf

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium, Homer's Odyssey, and Euripides' Ion. Koulouris's examination of this manuscript uncovers crucial insights into the early development of Woolf's narrative styles and helps establish the link between Greekness and loss. Woolf's 'Greekness,' Koulouris argues, enabled her to navigate male and female appropriations of British Hellenism and provided her with a means of articulating loss, whether it be loss of a great Hellenic past, women's vocality, immediate family members, or human civilization during the formative decades of the twentieth century. In drawing attention to the centrality of Woolf's early Greek studies for the elegiac quality of her writing, Koulouris maps a new theoretical terrain that involves reassessing long-established views on Woolf and the Greeks.

Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900

Author : Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820469270

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Teaching British Women Writers, 1750-1900 by Jeanne Moskal,Shannon R. Wooden Pdf

The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes quirky, often passionate writers profoundly disrupts traditional pedagogical assumptions about what constitutes «literature». This book addresses this radically changed educational landscape, offering practical, proven teaching strategies for newly «recovered» writers, both in special-topics courses and in traditional teaching environments. Moreover, it addresses the institutional issues confronting feminist scholars who teach women writers in a variety of settings and the kinds of career-altering effects the decision to teach this material can have on junior and senior scholars alike. Collectively, these essays argue that teaching noncanonical women writers invigorates the curriculum as a whole, not only by introducing the voices of women writers, but by incorporating new genres, by asking new questions about readers' assumptions and aesthetic values, and by altering the power relations between teacher and student for the better.

Victorian Bloomsbury

Author : Rosemary Ashton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300154474

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Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton Pdf

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-20th-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of 19th-century London. This title presents a rich history of the great Bloomsbury pioneersthe educational, medical, and social reformists who led crusades for all.