Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel
Emily Blair
In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf’s fiction and her modernist manifestos. Moving between the Victorian and modernist periods, Blair looks at a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, including the literature of conduct and household management, as well as autobiography, essay, poetry, and fiction. She argues for a reevaluation of Woolf’s persistent yet vexed fascination with English domesticity and female creativity by juxtaposing the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, two popular Victorian novelists, against Woolf’s own novels and essays. Blair then traces unacknowledged lines of influence and complex interpretations that Woolf attempted to disavow. While reconsidering Woolf’s analysis of women and fiction, Blair simultaneously deepens our appreciation of Woolf’s work and advances our understanding of feminine aesthetics.
年:
2007
出版社:
State University of New York Press
语言:
english
页:
287
ISBN 10:
1429498277
ISBN 13:
9781429498272
系列:
Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
文件:
PDF, 1.27 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2007