Abstract

This essay argues that modernist British writers revived the ideologies of the Victorian New Women in their fiction and essays in order to influence the reception of radical feminism. The New Women novelists, writing at the end of the nineteenth century, developed a rhetoric of domestic feminism, a method of protofeminist subversion usually confined to the domestic space. Modernists outwardly disdained Victorian women's writing; yet they revived "the woman of the past" in their art. This seeming inconsistency within modernist sentiment actually signifies a coherent rhetorical movement that directed twentieth-century reactions to feminism and women's participation in British literary history.

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Rhetoric Review
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2002-07-02
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10.1207/s15327981rr2103_2
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