In a book that comparesVirginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique o…
This study argues that the greatest formal innovation in Virginia Woolf's fiction is the muting, complicating or effacing of tonal cues: textual pointers guiding how readers feel and make ethical judgments about characters and events.
"WOOLF'S AMBIGUITIES" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "1. Woolf's Tone: Listening to Mrs. Dalloway" -- "2. Tone and Modernism: Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves" -- "3. Not Thinking Back through Our Mothers: Elizabeth Robins and the Feminist Polemical Novel" -- "4. Ma…
In a book that comparesVirginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique o…
Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from an…
In a book that comparesVirginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique o…