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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Virginia Woolf always stayed ahead of her time. Championing gender equality when women could not vote; publishing authors from Pakistan, France, Austria and other parts of the world, while nationalism in Britain was on the rise; and befriending outcasts and social pariahs. As such, what could have possibly interested her in the works of nineteenth-century Russian writers, austere and, at times, misogynistic thinkers preoccupied with peasants, priests, and paroxysms of the soul? This study explains the chronological and cultural paradox of how classic Russian fiction became crucial to Woolf's v. |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English fiction -- Russian influences.
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English fiction. |
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Authors, Russian -- Influence.
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Authors, Russian. |
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Russian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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19th century |
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Russia -- In literature.
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Russia. |
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Russia -- Fiction.
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Russian literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Literature. |
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Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fiction.
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Print version : Protopopova, Darya, 1982- Virginia Woolf's portraits of Russian writers. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 1527527530 (OCoLC)1085204717 |
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9781527527829 (electronic book) |
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1527527824 (electronic book) |
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1527527530 |
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9781527527539 |
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