{"product_id":"room-of-ones-own-the-voyage-out","title":"Room Of One's Own \/ The Voyage Out By Woolf, Virginia","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out \u003c\/i\u003e(1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf’s prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man’s, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose ‘voyage out’ to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57554704761214,"sku":"NW9781840226799","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781840226799.jpg?v=1783097318","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/room-of-ones-own-the-voyage-out","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}