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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784133903321

Autore

Fernald Anne E

Titolo

Virginia Woolf [[electronic resource] ] : feminism and the reader / / Anne E. Fernald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36077-5

9786611360771

0-230-60087-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Feminism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.