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Oxbridge Pictures in Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
XIA Jia-yi, ZHONG Jing-dong (Corresponding author)
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.06.001
School of English, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, China
A Room of One’s Own is a masterpiece by Virginia Woolf, which describes her understanding of literary creation and the issue of women and fiction. The content of this book is based on Woolf’s two speeches at Cambridge, with the theme of “Women and fiction.” Through the analysis of the history and current situation of female literary creation, the paper points out that women should have the courage and right to fight for independent economic power and social status. “Oxbridge” is a combined term of Oxford and Cambridge, and Oxbridge pictures dominate the first chapter of A Room of One’s Own, which are the focus of this paper. Through a detailed analysis of the different indoor and outdoor pictures of Oxbridge, including nature, landscape, humanistic architecture and the “pictures” imagined in the narrator’s mind, this paper discusses the existence of Victorian women and Woolf’s feminist thoughts so as to provide possible implications for the social survival of contemporary women. The study is also concerned with Woolf’s Eco-feminism, stream of consciousness and other artistic skills.
A Room of One’s Own, woolf, Oxbridge picture, feminism
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, June 2023, Vol. 13, No. 6, 389-398
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