Behind the Times : Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts /

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"Inspired especially by feminist scholarship on the fin de siecle, this book rereads and revises Virginia Woolf's relation to the late-Victorian past, to writing by women who were her elder contemporaries, and to feminism and feminist movements around the turn of the twentieth century"...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Feminism and literature > History > 19th century.
Women authors, English > 19th century.
Women authors > Political and social views > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gender, greatness, and "the Third Generation"
  • New women and old: Sarah Grand, social purity, and "The voyage out"
  • "Ashamed of the inkpot": Woolf and the literary marketplace
  • "To serve and bless": Julia Stephen, Isabel Somerset, and late-Victorian women's politics
  • "A different ideal": representing the public woman.

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