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Virginia Woolf : Feminism and the Reader / by A. Fernald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernald, Anne E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Feminism.
- Feminist theory.
- Sex.
- Fiction Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Feminism and Feminist Theory.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Fiction Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Feminism and Feminist Theory.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study argues that Virginia Woolf taught herself to be a feminist artist and public intellectual through her revisionary reading. Fernald gives a clear view of Woolf's tremendous body of knowledge and her contrast references to past literary periods.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Woolfian Resonances; Chapter 1 O Sister Swallow: Sapphic Fragments as English Literature in Virginia Woolf; Chapter 2 The Memory Palace and the Lumber Room: Woolf's Renaissance Miscellany; Chapter 3 A Feminist Public Sphere? Virginia Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 4 A Very Sincere Performance: Woolf, Byron, and Fame; Epilogue: Woolf in Africa: Lessing, El Saadawi, and Aidoo; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611360771
- 9781281360779
- 1281360775
- 9780230600874
- 0230600875
- OCLC:
- 315771132
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