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emma_in_dream) wrote2010-11-20 08:41 pm
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# 33 - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1928)
Back in the 90s I read a list of the authors most frequently referenced in academic papers in the humanities. Lenin and Marx headed the list - a hang over from the compulsory Marxist historicism in the Eastern bloc. Virginia Woolf was the highest ranked woman, possibly the only woman from memory.
A large part of those references would have been to *A Room of One's Own* which basically outlines a whole program of feminist research for future historians and literary critics, a program enthusiastically taken up in recent years.
It is definitely my favourite Woolf. It combines close literary analysis (the section on *Jane Eyre* is outstanding) with an overview of literary and social history, and outlines what we don't know about women and literature. And it is all written in such an incredibly amusing way - deftly, often stingingly, funny.
A large part of those references would have been to *A Room of One's Own* which basically outlines a whole program of feminist research for future historians and literary critics, a program enthusiastically taken up in recent years.
It is definitely my favourite Woolf. It combines close literary analysis (the section on *Jane Eyre* is outstanding) with an overview of literary and social history, and outlines what we don't know about women and literature. And it is all written in such an incredibly amusing way - deftly, often stingingly, funny.