Virginia Woolf and nineteenth-century women writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary Afterlives

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biographyOffers the first study of Virginia Woolf's representation of nineteenth-century women writers' livesSituates Woolf's journalism as a post-Victorian body of work at odds with her Modernist fictionTraces Woolf&#...

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Main Author: Reus, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Summary:The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biographyOffers the first study of Virginia Woolf's representation of nineteenth-century women writers' livesSituates Woolf's journalism as a post-Victorian body of work at odds with her Modernist fictionTraces Woolf's impact on the afterlives of canonical and marginalized novelists of the nineteenth centuryThis book 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 contextualizes 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 215 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474485647
9781474485654
DOI:10.1515/9781474485647

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