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Author:

Blair, Emily, 1955-

Title:

Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel / Emily Blair.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature--England--History--20th century.
Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.

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.

Series:

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

ISBN:

9780791471197 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0791471195 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70707805

LCCN:

2006023866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)