This study argues that Virginia Woolf taught herself to be a feminist artist and public intellectual through her revisionary reading. Fernald gives a clear view of Woolf's tremendous body of knowledge and her contrast references to past literary periods

Autorentext
ANNE E. FERNALD is Assistant Professor of English, DePauw University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction O Sister Swallow: Sapphic Fragments as English Literature The Memory Palace of Virginia Woolf A Feminist Public Sphere? Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century Aristocratic Liberalism and Armchair Socialism, or what Woolf learned from Byron Conclusion