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"A Room of One's Own" in Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice by Ed. Anne Marie Hacht
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" 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.
Gender Space Architecture by Iain Borden (Editor); Barbara Penner (Editor); Jane Rendell (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1134692056
Publication Date: 2002-09-11
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.
Modernism and Eugenics by Donald J. Childs
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0521033306
Publication Date: 2007-01-25
In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.
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.
Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language by Judith Allen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1282749676
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics are expressed and enacted in her writing. She then works from a wide range of sources to relate Woolf's views and methods to our current political situation. These sources range from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks, from the Northcliffe Press newspaper empire of World War I to today's mainstream newspapers, Rupert Murdoch's empire, satirical news shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show and social media and the blogosphere."

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