Behind the Times

Behind the Times
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 205
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501752476
ISBN-13 : 1501752472
Rating : 4/5 (472 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Behind the Times by : Mary Jean Corbett

Download or read book Behind the Times written by Mary Jean Corbett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Behind the Times Related Books

Behind the Times
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Mary Jean Corbett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 i
Behind the Times
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Edwin Diamond
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An incisive examination of the world's most respected paper, Behind the Times tells the story of changing Timesian values and of a new era for the paper—a tal
The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time
Language: en
Pages: 15445
Authors: Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-02 - Publisher: e-artnow

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

e-artnow presents to you the collection of the great love stories of the past, the best historical novels in one edition:_x000D_ Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egy
Behind Her Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Sarah Pinborough
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-31 - Publisher: Flatiron Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The instant New York Times and #1 international bestseller. “You should read Behind Her Eyes...It’s bloody brilliant.” —St
Passing
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Nella Larsen
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Alien Ebooks

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen (1891 –1964) published just two novels and three short stories in her lifetime, but achieved lasting literary acclaim.