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A Room of One's Own
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Author: Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
EAN: 9780156787338
ISBN: 0156787334
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 132
Publication Date: 1989-12-27
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
EAN: 9780156787338
ISBN: 0156787334
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 132
Publication Date: 1989-12-27
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
Editorial Review of A Room of One's Own
Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.
Customer Reviews of A Room of One's Own
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Review Summary: A Room of One's Own
Review: I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia Woolf. There must be something lacking in me.
Edward Cook
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Obligatory Reading
Review: Virginia Woolf in her best form - personal but not self-centred, concentrated and ready to fight for what she believes is right. This long essay gives her views on the position of women in literature but offers also an overview of their role through centuries - from the imaginary Shakespeare's sister to her contemporaries. A must read for all readers regardless of sex!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: unavailable...
Review: after i ordered this book, the distributors let me know instantly that they no longer had the book on shelf, and instantly refunded my account. speedy service is one thing, but keeping the customer informed is another...thanks
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must have
Review: A timeless essay not only for women. Good hard binding that will keep. It's a must have if you like English literature.
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Review Summary: A woman's liberation classic
Review: This is a beautifully written and highly enjoyable exploration of the history of women in writing. It is also a plea for the liberation of women, and their full entrance into the world of Literature. Woolf argues that a woman needs financial independence, a room , that is a space of her own, if she is to be able to truly create. She also needs the kind of access to everyday life that women confined to hearth and home were as she sees it, traditionally denied.
She urges that Woman enter into all fields of writing, and develop in directions they had no opportunity to develop in before.
She also perhaps reflecting on her own experience and nature argues for the androgynous nature of the creator, seeing in Shakespeare, Keats and certainly Proust a strong feminine element.
Woolf anticipates and perhaps in some sense helps creates the vast flourishing of Literature written by women which will come in the decades after her.
Review Summary: A Room of One's Own
Review: I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia Woolf. There must be something lacking in me.
Edward Cook
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Obligatory Reading
Review: Virginia Woolf in her best form - personal but not self-centred, concentrated and ready to fight for what she believes is right. This long essay gives her views on the position of women in literature but offers also an overview of their role through centuries - from the imaginary Shakespeare's sister to her contemporaries. A must read for all readers regardless of sex!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: unavailable...
Review: after i ordered this book, the distributors let me know instantly that they no longer had the book on shelf, and instantly refunded my account. speedy service is one thing, but keeping the customer informed is another...thanks
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A must have
Review: A timeless essay not only for women. Good hard binding that will keep. It's a must have if you like English literature.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A woman's liberation classic
Review: This is a beautifully written and highly enjoyable exploration of the history of women in writing. It is also a plea for the liberation of women, and their full entrance into the world of Literature. Woolf argues that a woman needs financial independence, a room , that is a space of her own, if she is to be able to truly create. She also needs the kind of access to everyday life that women confined to hearth and home were as she sees it, traditionally denied.
She urges that Woman enter into all fields of writing, and develop in directions they had no opportunity to develop in before.
She also perhaps reflecting on her own experience and nature argues for the androgynous nature of the creator, seeing in Shakespeare, Keats and certainly Proust a strong feminine element.
Woolf anticipates and perhaps in some sense helps creates the vast flourishing of Literature written by women which will come in the decades after her.