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Refiguring Milton In Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own, Rebecca Kirk Marsh
Refiguring Milton In Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own, Rebecca Kirk Marsh
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Since 1979 feminist scholars have misread key images in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own'. They delineated the extended essay as a groundbreaking feminist polemic that advocates abolishing the literary patriarchy, expressing distain for John Milton as chief offender. Through rhetorical analysis and close readings of passages, there seems advocacy for change in patriarchial education and for opening of the literary canon to women.