The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers

247 Pages·2002·24.537 MB·English

by  Margaret M. Jensen (auth.)

The Open Book ~

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.
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The open book : creative misreading in the works of selected modern writers
I by Margaret M. Jensen.
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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.
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Contents
Acknowledgements IX
Preface X111
Chapter One: Palimpsest
Gratitude and SubterfUge:
The dynamics of( inter) textual relatiom
Chapter Two: A Case Study 23
The Strange Case ofThomas Hardy and Sir Leslie Stephen
Chapter Three: Three's a Crowd 59
Historicizing Influence among Thomas Hardy,
john Middleton Murry, and Katherine Mamfield
Chapter Four: Mother/Muse, Psychic/Sister? 91
The Personal and Intertextual Connectiom
between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield
Chapter Five: Ghost Story 131
Intertextual Haunting.r: Virginia Woolf,
Katherine Mansfield, and Thomas Hardy
Chapter Six: Ambivalence 167
Virginia Woolf's Biographies ofL eslie Stephen
Conclusion: Fish in a Stream or Spider in a Web? 203
Notes 209
Works Cited 219
Index 227

Acknowledgements
I acknowledge and thank The Society of Authors as the Literary Represen
tative 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 per
mission of the publisher.
Extracts from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1925 by Har
court, Inc. and renewed 1953 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permission of
the publisher.
Extracts from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1927 by
Harcourt, Inc. and renewed 1954 by Leonard Woolf, reprinted by permis
sion of the publisher.
Extract from "A Sketch of the Past" in Moments of Being by Virginia
Woolf, copyright© 1976 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett, reprinted
by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
Extract from Moments ofB eing by Virginia Woolf, published by the Hog
arth Press. Used by permission of the executors of the Virginia Woolf estate
and by The Random House Group Limited.
Extracts from The Letters ofVirginia Woolfby Virginia Woolf, published
by the Hogarth Press. Used by permission of the executors of the Virginia
Woolf estate and The Random House Group Limited.
Extract from "Letter to Violet Dickinson'' in The Letters ofVirginia Woolf,
VtJlume 1: 1888-1912, copyright © 1975 by Quentin Bell and Angelica
Garnett, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc.
Extracts from The Letters ofVirginia Woolf, VtJlume 2: 1912-1922, copy
right© 1976 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett, reprinted by permis
sion of Harcourt, Inc.
Extracts from The Letters ofVirginia Woolf, VtJlume 3: 1923-1927, copy
right © 1977 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett, reprinted by permis
sion of Harcourt, Inc.