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Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Author : Emily Blair
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479927
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel written by Emily Blair and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and the Nineteenth-century Domestic Aesthetic

Author : Emily Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-century Domestic Aesthetic written by Emily Blair and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156030410
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis A Room of One's Own by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's talented sister, who, because of the mores of her time, never expresses her genius until she dies by her own hand. Reprint.

Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories

Author : Anne Besnault
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000461882
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories written by Anne Besnault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in Context

Author : Bryony Randall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110700361X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf in Context written by Bryony Randall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury

Author : Matthew Ingleby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113754600X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury written by Matthew Ingleby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury in the period it emerged as the city’s dominant literary zone. A neighbourhood that was subject simultaneously to socio-economic decline and cultural ascent, fiction set in Bloomsbury is shown to have reconceived the area’s marginality as potential autonomy. Drawing on sociological theory, this book critically historicizes Bloomsbury’s trajectory to show that its association with the intellectual “fraction” known as the ‘Bloomsbury Group’ at the beginning of the twentieth century was symptomatic rather than exceptional. From the 1820s onwards, writers positioned themselves socially within the metropolitan geography they projected through their fiction. As Bloomsbury became increasingly identified with the cultural capital of writers rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated.

Virginia Woolf and Heritage

Author : Jane deGay
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954433
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Heritage written by Jane deGay and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Room of One’s Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Laurus - Lexecon Kft.
ISBN 13 : 6155643105
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Laurus - Lexecon Kft.. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay,Virginia Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give a voice to those who have none. Her message is simple: A woman must have a fixed income and a room of her own in order to have the freedom to create.

Family Likeness

Author : Mary Jean Corbett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801459664
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Family Likeness written by Mary Jean Corbett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual relationships between parents and children, between siblings, or between grandparents and grandchildren. But for a widower to marry his deceased wife's sister was illegal on the grounds that it constituted incest. That these laws and the mores they reflect strike us today as wrongheaded indicates how much ideas about kinship, marriage, and incest have changed. In Family Likeness, Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of "family" and even helped refine those borders. Corbett takes up historically contingent and culturally variable notions of who is and is not a relative and whom one can and cannot marry. Her argument is informed by legal and political debates; texts in sociology and anthropology; and discussions on the biology of heredity, breeding, and eugenics. In Corbett's view, marriage within families—between cousins, in-laws, or adoptees—offered Victorian women, both real and fictional, an attractive alternative to romance with a stranger, not least because it allowed them to maintain and strengthen relations with other women within the family.

A Room of One's Own

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141018984
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134772122
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century by : Brenda R. Weber

Download or read book Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century written by Brenda R. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.

Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009003054
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Juliet Shields and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Kathryn Simpson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590686
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Kathryn Simpson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf is one of the best-known and most influential modernist writers; an iconic figure, her image and reference to her work and life appear in the most varied of cultural sites. Her writing is, however, in many ways kaleidoscopic and has given rise to a diverse and, sometimes, conflicting body of critical work. Whilst Woolf envisaged that her readers could be 'fellow-worker[s]' in the creative process, there is much to perplex any reader approaching her writing, especially for the first time. Drawing on some of the main critical debates and on Woolf's non-fictional writings, this guide untangles some of the difficulties and perplexities that can prove a barrier to understanding of Woolf's writing. These include aspects of the process of writing (such as narrative techniques, formal structures, characterisation), as well as the thematic concerns so central to Woolf's writing, the cultural context in which it emerged and to recent criticism, including representations of gender and sexuality, class and race.

Returning the Gift

Author : Rebecca Colesworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198778589
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Returning the Gift written by Rebecca Colesworthy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a gift? What do gifts mean and do? Drawing on Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay, this volume studies novels, autobiographical texts, aesthetic treatises, and political writings by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and H.D. to explore the idea of the gift in Modernist literature.

Behind the Times

Author : Mary Jean Corbett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501752472
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Times written by Mary Jean Corbett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a "lady novelist." As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright, Lucy Clifford; the novelist and anti-suffragist, Mary Augusta Ward. It explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, Corbett complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.

Night and Day

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Transaction Pub Large Print
ISBN 13 : 9781412811606
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Night and Day written by Virginia Woolf and published by Transaction Pub Large Print. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night and Day was Virginia Woolf's second novel and it has been overlooked by critics and readers in favor of her more experimental works. It is important for its treatment of women and modernity, in the city, in politics and in the workplace. It is a novel about social transition. Set before the First World War, but written after the war, Woolf hints at the sense of chaos and relativism which the war will bring about. The novel looks backwards as well as forwards. Katharine and her mother are engaged in the seemingly never-ending project of writing the biography of poet Richard Alardyce, Katharine's maternal grandfather. Woolf depicts the Victorian fetish for great men. As Ralph Denham, Katharine's eventual fiance, says, -I hate great men. The worship of greatness in the nineteenth century seems to me to explain the worthlessness of that generation.- His middle-class family in Highgate boasts no such great figures, and the cross-class relationship between Ralph and Katharine is a sign of the novel's modernity. Katherine is harnessed to a -great- man, taught to remember her own insignificance in the face of his greatness. -One finds them [the Alardyces] at the tops of professions, with letters after their names; they sit in luxurious public offices, with private secretaries attached to them; they write solid books in dark covers, issued by the presses of the two great universities, and when one of them dies the chances are that another of them writes his biography.- -They- are, of course, all men, and Woolf here launches an attack on the perpetuation of privilege through the patriarchal institutions which she would analyze in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030783189
Total Pages : 1753 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing written by Lesa Scholl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 1753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late twentieth century, there has been a strategic campaign to recover the impact of Victorian women writers in the field of English literature. However, with the increased understanding of the importance of interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, there is a need to extend this campaign beyond literary studies in order to recognise the role of women writers across the nineteenth century, a time that was intrinsically interdisciplinary in approach to scholarly writing and public intellectual engagement.