Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel

Traces Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity. In Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel, Emily Blair explores how nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity saturate both Woolf's fiction and her modernist manifestos. Moving between the Victorian and modernist periods, Blair looks at a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, including the literature of conduct and household