Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Hours in a Library
Author: Leslie StephenHours in a Library
Author: Sir Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Hours in a Library. 3 Series
Author: Sir Leslie STEPHENBehind the Times
Author: Mary Jean CorbettPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
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 ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright, Lucy Clifford; the novelist and anti-suffragist, Mary Augusta Ward. It explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, Corbett complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.
Hours in a Library. 3 series.
Author: Leslie StephenNotes and Queries
Author: The Quarterly review
Author: Hours in a Library
Author: Leslie StephenSelected Letters of Leslie Stephen
Author: John W. BicknellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since F.W. Maitland's Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (1907), there has been no volume of the letters written by this extraordinary and eminent Victorian. Alpinist, literary critic, god-killer, editor of The Cornhill Magazine and The Dictionary of National Biography, biographer, historian of ideas, and father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, Stephen corresponded with a host of men and women, including such notables as his American friends - James Russell Lowell, Justice Holmes and art historian Charles E. Norton; such contemporaries among the intelligentsia as John Morley, Henry Sidgwick, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, F.W. Maitland, and Thomas Hardy; and the members of his family - Minny, his first wife; his sister-in-law, Anny Ritchie; his son Thoby; and his best beloved second wife, Julia. In his letters, always readable, we find his enthusiasms, his ironic humour, his self-doubt and self-pity, his anguish over his retarded child Laura, his candour, his lively portraits of people and places, his delight in the young - Nessa, Ginia and Thoby, and his direct and easy style as he responds to his reader's interests and needs. This second volume follws the demanding years Stephen spent as Editor of The Dictionary of National Biography, his happy life with Julia until her death in 1895 and his continuing devotion to literature, a source of much solace in his last years.
The Brontës
Author: Miriam Farris AllottPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415134613
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.