A room of one's own : women writers and the politics of creativity

Book 1995

"With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and the first theory of literary inheritance in which gender was the central category. As a theory of women's literature, it presents general ideas and issues through which the lives and works of women writers might profitably be read. Woolf (in the pers...

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Room of one's own

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Twayne's masterwork studies Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 151

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ISBN:

9780805785944
9780805783742
0805785949
0805783741

Description:

xii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index

Contents:

Chronology: Virginia Woolf's Life and Works
1. Virginia Woolf and Her World
2. The Importance of A Room of One's Own
3. Critical Reception
4. Women's Colleges and A Room of One's Own
5. Women and Society: Patriarchy and the Place of the Outsider
6. A Sociology of Creativity
7. Social Institutions and Creativity
8. Female Creativity and Literary History
9. The Essay as Novel: Technique in A Room of One's Own
10. Difficulties and Contradictions: The Blind Spots of A Room of One's Own

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94025607 //r97

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56180

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