A room of one's own ;
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
A room of one's own ; The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; with introduction and notes by Sally Minogue. - Completed and unabridged. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 2012. - 25, 463 p. ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth classics . - Wordsworth classics .
Introduction to "A room of the one's own" --
Bibliography for "A room of the one's own" --
A room of the one's own --
Notes to "A room of the one's own" --
Introduction to "The voyage out" --
Bibliography for "The voyage out" --
The voyage out --
Notes to "The voyage out".
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose 'voyage out' to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
9781840226799
Feminism--Great Britain
Women--History--Great Britain
Women authors--Social conditions
Women authors--Economic conditions
Women and literature--Great Britain
Young women--Fiction
Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Women travelers--Fiction
Ocean travel--Fiction
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A room of one's own ; The voyage out / Virginia Woolf ; with introduction and notes by Sally Minogue. - Completed and unabridged. - Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 2012. - 25, 463 p. ; 20 cm. - Wordsworth classics . - Wordsworth classics .
Introduction to "A room of the one's own" --
Bibliography for "A room of the one's own" --
A room of the one's own --
Notes to "A room of the one's own" --
Introduction to "The voyage out" --
Bibliography for "The voyage out" --
The voyage out --
Notes to "The voyage out".
A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. The essay lays bare the woman artist's struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf's prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man's, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century. The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose 'voyage out' to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.
9781840226799
Feminism--Great Britain
Women--History--Great Britain
Women authors--Social conditions
Women authors--Economic conditions
Women and literature--Great Britain
Young women--Fiction
Man-woman relationships--Fiction
Women travelers--Fiction
Ocean travel--Fiction
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