Virginia Woolf and nineteenth-century women writers : Victorian legacies and literary afterlives / Anne Reus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reus, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Influnce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This work 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 contextualises 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.

Contents:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Rainbow and granite, women and biography

2. 'Vain are these speculations' : Jane Austen and female perfection

3. 'Even a lady sometimes raises her voice' : Mary Russell Mitford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4. 'That indefinable something' : Charlotte Brontë and protest

5. 'A gap in your library, Madam' : the lives of professional women

6. Writing Virginia Woolf : autobiographical fragments.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).

ISBN:

1-4744-8565-0

1-4744-8564-2

OCLC:

1343104299