ABSTRACT

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) is frequently considered the single most influential work that helped establish feminist literary criticism as a discipline. It continues to be a key feminist text today: scholars avidly debate how Woolf's criticism instigated, but also thwarted and distorted, the study of women's literary history. Apart from A Room, Woolf also engaged extensively with women's literary history both in her fictional and non-fictional writing. I argue that it is important to put A Room in dialogue with both Woolf's early essays about eighteenth-century women writers and her writing about literary history and aesthetics. Re-reading A Room in light of this is a useful exercise because it helps us understand that Woolf's feminist literary history project is not solely based on women's economic entrance into the literary marketplace, but that, for Woolf, literary aesthetics played an important part in women's inclusion or exclusion in literary history. In examining Woolf's conception of women's literary history of the long eighteenth century, this essay sheds new light on the close entanglement of aesthetics and feminist politics in Woolf's writing.

摘要

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 (Virginia Woolf) 的《一间自己的房间》( A Room of One's Own , 1929) 经常被认为是帮助建立女权主义文学批评学科的最具影响力的作品。今天它仍然是重要的女权主义文本：学者们热切地争论伍尔夫的批评如何煽动，但也阻碍和歪曲了女性文学史的研究。除了A Room之外，伍尔夫还在她的虚构和非虚构作品中广泛涉足女性文学史。我认为，将《房间》与伍尔夫关于 18 世纪女作家的早期文章以及她关于文学史和美学的著作进行对话是很重要的。重读房间鉴于此，这是一项有用的练习，因为它有助于我们理解伍尔夫的女权主义文学史项目不仅仅基于女性进入文学市场的经济入口，而且对于伍尔夫而言，文学美学在女性被纳入或排斥在文学市场中发挥了重要作用文学史。在考察伍尔夫对漫长的 18 世纪女性文学史的看法时，本文对伍尔夫作品中美学与女权主义政治的紧密纠缠提供了新的视角。