Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf & 20th Century Women Writers

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2014

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9781619254206

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Women's History Collection on Gale eBooks for Middle and High School Students
Overview

This volume examines a diverse set of texts published by notable women in the mid-20th century. From Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood to Willa Cather and Kate Chopin, essays survey the critical conversation regarding these works, explore their historical, societal and cultural contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre through a variety of critical approaches.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Looking Through the Window: Reflections and Refractions in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
Critical Contexts.
1: The Woolf Era.
2: Mrs. Woolf and the Critics.
3: Writing Was Her Fighting: Three Guineas as a Pacifist Response to Total War.
4: Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf: The Novelists' Art.
Critical Readings.
5: “The Most Amazing Senses of Her Generation”: Colourist Design in Katherine Mansfield's Fiction.
6: Rebecca West: Twentieth-Century Heretical Humanist.
7: Killing the Angel and the Monster: A Comparative and Postcolonial Analysis of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out.
8: “It Had Grown into 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.
9: Parties, Pins, and Perspective: Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, and Matrilineal Inheritance.
10: “The Woolf Sting”: Sylvia Plath Annotating Virginia Woolf.
11: An Irish Woman Poet's Room: Eavan Boland's Debt to Virginia Woolf.
12: Spaciousness and Subjectivity in Alice Walker's Womanist Prose: From Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own to a Garden with “Every Color Flower Represented”.
13: Raced Bodies, Corporeal Texts: Narratives of Home and Self in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
14: Destabilizing Life Writings: Narrative and Temporal Ruptures in The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Orlando.
15: Narrative Forms and Feminist (Dis)Contents: An Intertextual Reading of the Prose of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf.
Resources.
Works by Twentieth-Century Women Writers.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf & 20th Century Women Writers

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