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Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blair, Emily, 1955-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The slant of the kitchen chair: reassessing Virginia Woolf's relationship to her nineteenth-century predecessors
  • The etiquette of fiction
  • The wrong side of the tapestry: Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and daughters
  • The bad woman writer--"prostituting culture and enslaving intellectual liberty": Virginia Woolf and Margaret Oliphant
  • A softly, spiritually green damask: Margaret Oliphant's domestic genius
  • Cool, lady-like, critical or ravishing, romantic, recalling some English field or harvest: Virginia Woolf's perfect hostess.