Research Guides: Woolf, Virginia: Books

Books

"A Room of One's Own" in Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works by David M. Galens, et al. (eds.)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2001
Provides critical overviews of nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs. Includes discussions of literary format, themes, and structure.
"A Room of One's Own" in Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice by Ed. Anne Marie Hacht
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2006
Critical discussions of prejudice in literature concerning race, religion, gender, ethnicity, social status, mental and physical health, and personal beliefs and behaviors. Includes concise synopses of plot, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.
A Room of One's Own by Ellen B. Rosenman
Call Number: PR6045.O72 Z86734 1994
ISBN: 0805785949
Publication Date: 1994-11-01
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman explores the myriad perceptions of a work whose famous title comes from one of its most basic and simple prescriptions: that to fare as a writer in the modern world a woman needs a room of her own and [pound]500 a year. In a broad sense, Rosenman points out, A Room of One's Own analyzes the constraints on women's achievement - the hostile environment in which they write - and the responses, both creative and self-defeating, that this environment provokes. This environment - the historically ordered patriarchy - Rosenman observes as Woolf observed it, from the place of the outsider. Rosenman follows the essay's analysis of what she considers two large and vague words: patriarchy and feminism.

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