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Virginia Woolf on the Outside Looking Down: Reflections on the Class of Women

Mary M. Childers
- 01 Jan 1992 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 1, pp 61-79
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In this paper, the contradiction politique/esthetique et les limites du feminisme woolfien are discussed, and the preface of Life as We Have Known It is given.
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Sur la contradiction politique/esthetique et les limites du feminisme woolfien. Lecture de Three Guineas et la preface de Life as We Have Known It

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Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere

TL;DR: Woolf and the classless intellectual: Woolf, English studies and the making of the (new) common reader as mentioned in this paper, and the theory and pedagogy of reading.
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Using models of lexical style to quantify free indirect discourse in modernist fiction

TL;DR: It is confirmed that free indirect discourse does, at a stylistic level, reflect a mixture of narration and direct speech, and the extent to which social attributes of the various characters are reflected in their lexical stylistic profile is investigated.
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Virginia Woolf's "cotton wool of daily life"

TL;DR: Woolf's prose has frequently been called poetic, a description that alludes to the rhythm and sound of her sentences, the lyric plotlessness of her novels, and the self-conscious interiority of her characters as mentioned in this paper.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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Virginia Woolf and the real world

TL;DR: Zwerdling's work as discussed by the authors places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into a firm historical perspective and leaves us with renewed appreciation for Woolf and for her mind.
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The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below

Bruce Robbins
TL;DR: The Servant's Hand as discussed by the authors examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction and argues that their persistence signals more than the absence of the ordinary people they are taken to represent.