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Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.

Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strate...

Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.

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Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.

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Full title

Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.

Publisher

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Call Numbers

G 2017/6901

Record Identifier

74VKVGGBR74b

MMS ID

991024154216402626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xvi, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Woolf's tone : listening to Mrs. Dalloway -- Tone and modernism : Jacob's room, To the lighthouse and The waves -- Not looking back through our mothers : Elizabeth Robins and the feminist polemical novel -- Making room for A room of one's own -- What girls should know : The voyage out and My little...

Publication information

Publisher

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

2017.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf?s aversion to women?s "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One?s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins?s work. Hite presents and develops the co...

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Full title

Woolf's ambiguities : tonal modernism, narrative strategy, feminist precursors / Molly Hite.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued As

Online version: Hite, Molly, 1947- Woolf's ambiguities. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501714474 (DLC) 2017014833

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Date Copyright

©2017

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Call Numbers

G 2017/6901

Record Identifier

74VKVGGBR74b

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGGBR74b

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ISBN

1501714457 hardcover ; alkaline paper

9781501714450 hardcover ; alkaline paper

DDC

823.912

MMS ID

991024154216402626

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