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Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Author	: Emily Blair
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Release Date	: 2012-02-16
ISBN 10	: 9780791479926
Pages	: 302 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (799 users)

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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: Traces Woolf’s persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity.

Virginia Woolf in Context

Author	: Bryony Randall
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2012-12-17
ISBN 10	: 9781107003613
Pages	: 521 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (36 users)

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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.

Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories

Author	: Anne Besnault
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2021-10-29
ISBN 10	: 9781000461886
Pages	: 266 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (618 users)

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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 2021-10-29 with total page 266 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.

Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury

Author	: Matthew Ingleby
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2018-11-05
ISBN 10	: 9781137546005
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (46 users)

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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 284 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.

Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture

Author	: Derek Gladwin
Publisher	: Liverpool University Press
Release Date	: 2019-09-10
ISBN 10	: 9781942954699
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (546 users)

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Download or read book Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture written by Derek Gladwin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

Author	: Brenda R. Weber
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-02-11
ISBN 10	: 9781134772124
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (721 users)

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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.

Returning the Gift

Author	: Rebecca Colesworthy
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date	: 2018
ISBN 10	: 9780198778585
Pages	: 282 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (785 users)

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Download or read book Returning the Gift written by Rebecca Colesworthy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. 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.

Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-century Domestic Aesthetic

Author	: Emily Blair
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: UCAL:X64064
Pages	: 668 pages
Rating	: 4.X/5 (64 users)

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Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

Author	: Emma Simone
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2017-04-19
ISBN 10	: 9781474421683
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (216 users)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world written by Emma Simone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual's relationship to and with the world.

Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author	: Kathryn Simpson
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2016-02-25
ISBN 10	: 9781472590688
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (96 users)

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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 192 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Author	: Susan Sellers
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2010-02-18
ISBN 10	: 9780521896948
Pages	: 299 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (969 users)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf written by Susan Sellers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author	: Juliet Shields
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2021-07-29
ISBN 10	: 9781009003056
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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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 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Scott's tales of chivalry and adventure inaugurated a masculinized Scottish romance tradition that celebrated a sublime and heroic version of Scotland. Nineteenth-century Scotswomen responded to Scott's influence by establishing a counter-tradition of unromantic or even anti-romantic representations of Scotland. Their novels challenged the long-standing claim that Scotland lacked any equivalent to the English realist novel. In turning from the past to the present and from the sublimity of Scott's Highland landscapes to farmhouses, factories, and suburban villas, Scottish women writers brought romance to everyday life, illuminating the magnificence of the mundane. Drawing on the evangelical discourses emerging from the splintering of the Presbyterian Church in 1843, they represented fiction as a form of spiritual comfort, an antidote to the dreary monotony and petty frustrations of daily existence. This volume introduces the previously overlooked tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish women's writing, and corrects previously male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel.

Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays

Author	: Katarína Labudova
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-10-03
ISBN 10	: 9781443853200
Pages	: 244 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (532 users)

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Download or read book Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays written by Katarína Labudova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the question of presence and/or absence from a transdisciplinary perspective, and intends to provide insights into how a wide range of disciplines addresses this issue which has been at the centre of philosophical, theoretical and critical debates in the past decades. As the essays in the volume prove, apparently diverse areas can have a lot in common and talk to each other in sometimes surprising ways. The topics discussed include modals in various languages and black slave funeral sermons, pragmatic markers and the Australian Stolen Generation, the transcendental in poems by Ann Bradstreet, Arthur Symons and Philip Larkin, short stories by Katherine Mansfield, generic presences in Virginia Woolf and contemporary journalism, haunting presences in fin-de-siècle ghost stories and in a contemporary horror film, mythical structures in John Cowper Powys and Margaret Atwood, and gender politics in Pat Barker and Sarah Waters. The analyses, as they talk to each other, create multiple dialogues without imposing closures and ultimate interpretations on the plethora of possible meanings emerging from the juxtaposition of these essays. This transdisciplinary volume, written in an erudite but reader-friendly language, will be of great interest to both the academic world, as well as a broader readership interested in how linguistic phenomena in general, cultural myths of all kinds, various cinematic, literary and journalistic genres from diverse periods can be approached and opened up to new readings and meanings from the perspective of presences and absences.

Virginia Woolf and the Professions

Author	: Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2014-07-28
ISBN 10	: 9781139993418
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (934 users)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Professions written by Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Virginia Woolf's engagement with the professions in her life and writing. Woolf underscored the significance of the professions to society, such as the opportunity they provided for a decent income and the usefulness of professional accreditation. However, she also resisted their hierarchical structures and their role in creating an overspecialised and fragmented modernity, which prevented its members from leading whole, fulfilling lives. This book shows how Woolf's writing reshaped the professions so that they could better serve the individual and society, and argues that her search for alternatives to existing professional structures deeply influenced her literary methods and experimentation.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

Author	: Lesa Scholl
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2022-12-15
ISBN 10	: 9783030783181
Pages	: 1753 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (831 users)

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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.

Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide

Author	: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2018-03-08
ISBN 10	: 9781351333238
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide written by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life. Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence – the myth of "high modernism" and the myth of "Victorianism" – by building on recent scholarly work and addressing the question of the "turn of the century break theory" with a new set of arguments and contributions. The essays presented within acknowledge the existence of a break-theory in modernism, but question this theory by re-contextualising it while uncovering long-masked continuities between artists, genres and forms across the divide. The collection offers a new approach to modernism, Edwardianism, and Victorianism; utilizing the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary approaches, and by combining contributions that look forward from the Victorians with other contributions that look backward from the modernists. While literary modernism and its vexed relationships with the nineteenth century is a central subject of the book, further analysis includes artistic discourses and theories stemming from history, the visual arts, science, music and design. Each chapter offers a fresh interpretation of individual artists, navigating away from characteristic classifications of works, authors and cultural phenomena. Ultimately, the volume argues that though periodization and genre categories play substantial roles in this divide, it is also essential to be critically aware of the way cultural history has been, and continues to be, constructed.

Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears

Author	: Marion Dell
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2015-10-12
ISBN 10	: 9781137497284
Pages	: 207 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (972 users)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf’s Influential Forebears written by Marion Dell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the lives and works of Woolf's great-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the writer she called aunt, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and her mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen.