A Room of One's Own: Including "Three Guineas"
Nov 2022 · DigiCat
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This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality and a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. Virginia Woolf makes the connection between war and the economy and a woman's role (or lack there of) in both. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an iconic figure of modernist literature, renowned for her innovative narrative techniques and thematic explorations of gender roles, identity, and the human psyche. Woolf was an integral part of the Bloomsbury Group, an assemblage of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists who engaged in avant-garde discourse during the early 20th century. Woolf's oeuvre is distinguished by its lyrical prose, free indirect discourse, and stream of consciousness style, exemplified in works such as 'Mrs. Dalloway' (1925) and 'To the Lighthouse' (1927). Her extended essay 'A Room of One's Own' (1929) is a seminal feminist text that examines the systemic obstacles that have prevented women from writing and articulates the need for women's financial independence and intellectual freedom. In this work, Woolf famously asserts that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Her writing not only reflects a profound introspection but also a critique of the societal structures of her time. Woolf's legacy lives on through countless studies, ensuring her place as a cornerstone of 20th-century literature.
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