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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 56–77.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Andrea P. Zemgulys Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 “Night and Day Is Dead”: Virginia Woolf in London “Literary and Historic” Andrea P. Zemgulys [We] don’t want the [Hogarth] Press to be a fashionable hobby patronised and inspired...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 495–503.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Carole K. Harris The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette , by Southworth Helen , Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2004 . 240 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Crossing the Channel: Conversations with Colette and Woolf...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (3): 273–306.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Lara Trubowitz Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 H \ Concealing Leonard s Nose: Virginia Woolf, Modernist Antisemitism, and “The Duchess and the Jeweller” Lara Trubowitz “Although I loathe anti-semitism, I do dislike Jews.” —Harold Nicolson...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 27–58.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Mary Jean Corbett © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Virginia Woolf and “The Third Generation” Virginia Woolf and “The Third Generation” Mary Jean Corbett The old are as mysterious as idols in a temple; we take off our shoes before we approach them. The whole of our...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 363–392.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Patrick Collier Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 HI Virginia Woolf in the Pay of Booksellers: Commerce, Privacy, Professionalism, Orlando Patrick Collier irginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) stages one of the central conflicts of modernism. It puts into play the opposing...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 330–351.
Published: 01 September 2015
...” and Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel Jacob’s Room . To modernist and poststructuralist ethical positions, this account contrasts a “compositionist” ethics, oriented toward the sustainable assembly of the claims of nonhuman as well as human actors within our accounts of modernist ethics. Copyright ©...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 175–198.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Fuhito Endo Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 E4I Radical Violence Inside Out: Woolf, Klein, and Interwar Politics Fuhito Endo So Mrs Klein absolutely flourished here because for some reason the terrain was very, very receptive. —Hanna...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 317–346.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Mark David Kaufman This article uses the genre of speculative historical fiction as a point of entry into Virginia Woolf’s politics. Two spy novels, Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso’s The Shadow of the Moth (1983) and Stephanie Barron’s The White Garden (2009), present scenarios in which Woolf becomes...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 449–482.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Manya Lempert Although critics have tended to answer the question “Does Woolf write tragedies?” in the negative, Woolf rekindles a Greek perspective in which the universe is devoid of salvation and poetic justice. Woolf follows Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides—a literary, not a philosophical...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Kirstie Blair Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 41 Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West,Violet Trefusis, and Virginia Woolf Kirstie Blair Long Barn, Knole, Richmond and Bloomsbury. All too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 298–327.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Leena Kore Schröder Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI Tales of Abjection and Miscegenation: Virginia Woolf s and Leonard Woolf s “Jewish” Stories Leena Kore Schröder T h e r e can be no straightforward account of attitudes toward Jewishness in the work of Virginia...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Erin Kay Penner In The Wave s, the 1931 novel she called a “playpoem,” Virginia Woolf enacts a drama of modern elegy, using multiple elegists and elegiac subjects to challenge the terms by which speakers and subjects worthy of poetic mourning are defined. In doing so, Woolf frees the genre from...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (4): 437–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Annika J. Lindskog This article places Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) in the context of the Edwardian free-union novel—works that represent and debate monogamous relationships without legal recognition. In seeking alternatives to marriage, this genre explored what modernity might mean for young...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 131–167.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Brenda S. Helt Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny Passionate Debates on “Odious Subjects”: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity Brenda S. Helt Contemporary scholarly...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (4): 423–454.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Cara Lewis Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Cara Lewis Late in the evening on March 28, 1918, a government car rolled to a stop at the bottom...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Thomas S. Davis © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 The Historical Novel at History’s End:  Virginia Woolf’s The Years The Historical Novel at History’s End: Virginia Woolf’s The Years Thomas S. Davis It seems as if there were no progress in the human race, but only...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 463–484.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Holly Earl This article argues that synesthesia exerted a profound influence on the writing of Virginia Woolf. Examining a wide range of works, it establishes that Woolf not only registered synesthesia as a cultural phenomenon by depicting many synesthetes in her fiction but also, from the outset...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 348–361.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Craig Smith Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush Craig Smith I n 1933 Virginia W oolf published Flush: A Biography, an experim ent in genre that purports to tell the life story o f Elizabeth...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 283–308.
Published: 01 June 2013
...John Nash © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Exhibiting the Example:  Virginia Woolf’s Shoes Exhibiting the Example:  Virginia Woolf’s Shoes John Nash It would appear that Virginia Woolf had a thing about footwear. Shoes, slippers and boots, “old,” “shabby,” or lost, recur in her...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 39–71.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Karin E. Westman Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 rA l The First Orlando: The Laugh of the Comic Spirit in Virginia Woolf’s “Friendships Gallery” Karin E. Westman The Comic Spirit laughed meanwhile. — “Friendships Gallery...