Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel / Emily Blair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blair, Emily, 1955-

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

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

Contents:

The slant of the kitchen chair: reassessing Virginia Woolf's relationship to her nineteenth-century predecessors

The etiquette of fiction

The wrong side of the tapestry: Elizabeth Gaskell's wives and daughters

The bad woman writer prostituting culture and enslaving intellectual liberty: Virginia Woolf and Margaret Oliphant

A softly, spiritually green damask: Margaret Oliphant's domestic genius

Cool, lady-like, critical or ravishing, romantic, recalling some English field or harvest: Virginia Woolf's perfect hostess.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791471195

9780791471197

OCLC:

70707805