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Author Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962- author.

Title Behind the times : Virginia Woolf in late-Victorian contexts / Mary Jean Corbett
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (x, 296 pages)
Contents Gender, greatness, and "the Third Generation" -- New women and old: Sarah Grand, social purity, and "The voyage out" -- "Ashamed of the inkpot": Woolf and the literary marketplace -- "To serve and bless": Julia Stephen, Isabel Somerset, and late-Victorian women's politics -- "A different ideal": representing the public woman
Summary "Inspired especially by feminist scholarship on the fin de siècle, this book rereads and revises Virginia Woolf's relation to the late-Victorian past, to writing by women who were her elder contemporaries, and to feminism and feminist movements around the turn of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2020)
Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Subject Women authors -- Political and social views -- 19th century
Women authors, English -- 19th century
Feminism and literature -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Feminism and literature
Women authors, English
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020007236
ISBN 9781501752476
1501752472
9781501752483
1501752480