The Open Book Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Wr
The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Jensen reimagines the links between text and context as she endeavors to historicize literary influence, by taking Bloomian 'anxiety' and Kristevan
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The Open Book ~ Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers Margaret M Jensen
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The Open Book Copyright © Margaret M. Jensen, 2002. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-312-29353-6 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE MACMILLANTM 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave
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ISBN 978-1-349-63423-1 ISBN 978-1-137-09936-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-09936-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jensen, Margaret M., 1963The open book : creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers I by Margaret M. Jensen. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English ficrion-20th century-History and criticism. 2. Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928-Criticism and interpretation. 3. Mansfidd, Katherine, 1888--1923-Criticism and interpretation. 4. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941-Criticism and interpretation. 5. Reader-response criticism. I. Tide. PR881.J46 2002 823'.91209--dc21
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Contents
Acknowledgements Preface
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Chapter One: Palimpsest Gratitude and SubterfUge: The dynamics of(inter)textual relatiom Chapter Two: A Case Study The Strange Case ofThomas Hardy and Sir Leslie Stephen
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Chapter Three: Three's a Crowd Historicizing Influence among Thomas Hardy, john Middleton Murry, and Katherine Mamfield
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Chapter Four: Mother/Muse, Psychic/Sister? The Personal and Intertextual Connectiom between Virginia Woolfand Katherine Mansfield
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Chapter Five: Ghost Story Intertextual Haunting.r: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Thomas Hardy
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Chapter Six: Ambivalence Virginia Woolf's Biographies ofLeslie Stephen
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Conclusion: Fish in a Stream or Spider in a Web?
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Notes Works Cited Index
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Acknowledgements
I acknowledge and thank The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf for permission to reprint from A Room
ofOne's Own, jacob's Room, The VtJyage Out, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Collected Essays by Virginia Woolf, and Orlando.
Extracts from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1929 by Harcourt, Inc. and renewed 1957 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permission of the publisher. Extracts from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1925 b
