Virginia Woolf and 20th Century Women Writers

This book provides utstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it. Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf & 20th Century Women Writers introduces readers to the major turning points that occurred during this revolutionary time period. The essays in this volume showcase the multivalent nature of Woolf's life and fiction, along with her pervasive and varied influence on a diverse array of women writers from Britain, Ireland, America, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. The women writers that were chosen represent Woolf's transatlantic appeal across ethnic and national lines, across affinity and influence, friendship and mentorship. The first essay explores the double vision of reflection and refraction that blurs the boundary between the interior and exterior in Woolf's extended essay A Room of One's Own (1929), an inspirational and controversial centerpiece of feminism. The next four critical context essays lay an introductory foundation that imparts a broad vision of Woolf's historical context and critical reception, and then a more concentrated comparison and close textual analysis of Woolf's works. Turning the focus towards women writers who interacted with Woolf or her writings via affinity, influence, or friendship, the next eleven essays in the volume convey comparative, critical readings of a wide variety of texts that reveal intertextual convergences with Woolf's feminist perspectives. Works discussed in Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf and 20th Century Women Writers include the most important and most frequently discussed women's writings that ultimately lead to the success of the women's suffrage movement, including "The most amazing senses of her generation": Colourist Design in Katherine Mansfield's Fiction by Angela Smith, Rebecca West: Twentieth-Century Heretical Humanist by Bernard Schweizer, Killing the Angel and the Monster: A Comparative and Postcolonial Analysis of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Virginia Woolf's "The Voyage Out" by Mich Yonah Nyawalo, "It Had Grown in a Machine": Transience of Identity and the Search for a Room of One's Own in "Quicksand and Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral" by Christopher Allen Varlack, Parties, Pins, and Perspective: Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, and Matrilineal Inheritance by Emily Daniell Magruder, An Irish Woman Poet's Room: Eavan Boland's Debt to Virginia Woolf by Helen Emmit

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc.

מהדורות

1

עמודים

324

ISBN

9781619254190

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