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Autore |
Fernald Anne E |
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Titolo |
Virginia Woolf : feminism and the reader / / Anne E. Fernald |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36077-5 |
9786611360771 |
0-230-60087-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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