UID:
almahu_9949546446502882
Format:
1 online resource (224 p.)
ISBN:
9781474485647
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9783110993899
Content:
The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biographyOffers the first study of Virginia Woolf's representation of nineteenth-century women writers' livesSituates Woolf's journalism as a post-Victorian body of work at odds with her Modernist fictionTraces Woolf's impact on the afterlives of canonical and marginalized novelists of the nineteenth centuryThis book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. 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 at the heyday of her Modernist fame. It contextualizes 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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1. Introduction: Rainbow and Granite, Women and Biography --
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2. 'Vain are these speculations': Jane Austen and Female Perfection --
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3. 'Even a lady sometimes raises her voice': Mary Russell Mitford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
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4. 'That indefinable something': Charlotte Brontë and Protest --
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5. 'A gap in your library, Madam': The Lives of Professional Women --
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6. Writing Virginia Woolf: Autobiographical Fragments --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110780390
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781474485647
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474485647
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474485647
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474485647/type/BOOK
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