Behind the Times : : Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts / / Mary Jean Corbett.
Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a "lady novelist." As a result, Woolf ign...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Gender, Greatness, and the “Third Generation”
- Interlude I: Grand Reads Woolf
- 2. New Women and Old: Sarah Grand, Social Purity, and The Voyage Out
- Interlude II: Disinterestedness
- 3. “Ashamed of the Inkpot”: Woolf and the Literary Marketplace
- Interlude III: Duckworth and Company
- 4. “To Serve and Bless”: Julia Stephen, Isabel Somerset, and Late-Victorian Women’s Politics
- Interlude IV: Somerset, Symonds, Stephen, and Sexuality
- 5. “A Different Ideal”: Representing the Public Woman
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index