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... of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2001). She is writing a book on literary and philosophical imaginations of autonomy. The Monster in a Dark Room: Frankenstein, Feminism, and Philosophy Nancy Yousef t is as a giant that the creature makes his first appearance in Franken- I...

...Michelle M. Dowd Abstract Virginia Woolf’s account of Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith, in A Room of One’s Own offers a productive vantage point for investigating questions of gender, authority, and inheritance in Shakespeare’s late romances. These plays are notable for their formal hybridity...

... the colonial and postcolonial modernities. Kabe Wilson’s multimedia installation based on a remix of A Room of One’s Own and selected criticism on modernism are used to illustrate alternatives to linear periodization. Even more radically in her critique of conventional periodization, Caroline Levine notes...

... painter of such interior spaces is Vermeer, who, in works like The Astronomer (1668) and The Geographer (1668–69), apprehends the exterior world through a “mental survey of its ‘clear and distinct’ representation [maps and globes] within the room” (46). Crary’s...

... rather than commonplace? Since we are indirectly given Gregor’s point of view here as he looks about his room, apparently the attention to, and impressions of, the furry woman are his, and she is the first thing to which he turns his attention after seeing his insect’s body. Soon, of course, he...

... of Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University (1993). Her current project is Collaborative Sin: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility. McDonald ❙ Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age 229 one room and another, between the one you are in and the one you...

... as being at the Henry E. Hunt- ington Library; it is now in the Berg Room of the New York Public Library-it came to Mr. Berg from Owen D. Young, in whose collection Mr. Lucas probably saw it. Another similar instance of a letter once owned by Young and now in the Berg Room is No. 676, which...

.... Eliot, and Matthew Arnold Donald J. Childs Feminists have long celebrated Virginia Woolf‘s observation in A Room of One’s Own that “we think back through our mothers if we are women Woolf can thus be situated as a precursor to contempo- rary feminisms that seek...

... major works, “The Mark on the Wall” (1917), To the Lighthouse (1927), and A Room of One’s Own (1929), Woolf’s details throw large and small into relief in ways that create a deliberately dynamic, even vertiginous, aesthetic. As a noun, detail refers to a small subordinate part, something...

... If imprisonment is both a personal experience and a universal situa- tion, it is particularly suited for representation on stage. In Ionesco’s plays there are no dungeons or cells with iron bars: these have been replaced by the petty bourgeois living room. It is primarily in this, his most prevalent...

...Figure 1. Karl Beckman, Drawing Room of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in the Palace at Berlin , ca. 1840 (Praz 1987 : 15) ...

... open: Red carpet covered all the floors except the kitchen; red plush chairs in the drawing-room, green in the dining-room; tables, beds with real bedclothes, a cradle, a stove, a dresser with tiny plates and one big jug. But what Kezia liked more than anything, what she liked frightfully...

... and, as Eichendorff knew from experience during his stay in Vienna in 1810-1813, the dancing crowds could move from one huge room into the other. Poe apparently liked this idea of more than one ballroom, but for reasons of suspense and mystery created a sequence of seven rooms, possibly...

... the species. Holden’s relationship to his family is not explored: we meet his sister Phoebe, who is a younger version of himself, but his father never appears, and his mother exists in the novel only as another voice from a dark room. Finally, what is Holden (or Salinger) protesting against...

... of his critical sensibility. At one point, he is connecting Woolf’s assertion of the importance of money in A Room of One’s Own with her inheritance from her father. Zwerdling then connects his connection with a diary passage, dated 28 November 1928, which would have been her father’s ninety...

...,” and wanted it changed, but it never was, and “crying” is still read in all editions. So, says Tillotson, we are needlessly deprived of a “brilliantly chosen word.” Now, though there is no room for argument about what should be printed, it seems to me that “crying” is in some ways better...

...: Intertextuality, Sexuality, and the Emergence of Female Modernism in The Voyage Out, The Village in the Jungle, and Heart of Darkness Mark A. Wollaeger n A Room of One’s Own (1929) Virginia Woolf advises women writers I to “think back” through their mothers, but the tortuous composition...