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The Columbia History of the British NovelAlthough the methods are those of realism, the novel's displacement of expectation-a «happy» marriage-by what actually happens-fatal illness-suggests a reading of marriage as a kind of death for intelligent but sheltered women. Woolf is famous for her eloquently argued protests against the different and unequal ways that men and women were (and are) educated and socialized. Her essays are more unsettling for being powerfully reasoned, yet remarkably unscarred by bitterness (see especially A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas). These feminist essays are the natural counterpart to her more realistic, storied novels, as is nowhere more apparent than in an early draft of the 1880 section of The Years (edited and published by Mitchell A. Leaska as The Pargiters). Woolf originally envisioned The Years as an essay-novel, in which each chapter is introduced and followed by a sympathetic but uncompromising analysis of social impositions on the characters. The Years therefore began as a hybrid of literature and criticism, and as such it serves to illustrate the elsewhere implicit interdependence of Woolf's more plotted novels and her feminist writing: the plot that circumscribes and defines character, Woolf suggests, is never written by the author, but by the combined determinants of class, gender, and the historical moment ...» |
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