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On Jacob's Room: The Figure and Ground of Protest.

  • Published In: Modern Fiction Studies, 2024, v. 70, n. 3. P. 385 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Saint-Amour, Sarah Cole Anne E. Fernald Paul K.; Seshagiri, Urmila 3 of 3

Abstract

Virginia Woolf's career entails a lifelong effort to think in public. In this essay-in-dialogue four scholars spend an afternoon discussing Woolf's Jacob's Room approaching it not as an anticipation of her later work but as an experimental variation on the protest novel. Their conversation begins with Woolf's central character Jacob Flanders whose strange hollowness makes him both figure and ground of feminist resistance in the novel. Later phases of the discussion touch on the role of proleptic mourning the thwarted protagonism of Woolf's seemingly peripheral characters and the indelible language of the women who love Jacob Flanders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modern Fiction Studies. 2024/09, Vol. 70, Issue 3, p385
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0026-7724
  • DOI:10.1353/mfs.2024.a942194
  • Accession Number:180785052
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