num_pages: 134
description: "This book attempts to counter a canonical line of thinking that presents Authur Schopenhauer as an inveterate misogynist and, hence, of limited relevance to the wide, encompassing melange that is women's studies... As this study makes clear, some very prominent women writers of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries felt and acknowledged the influence of the 'will' and reflect that influence in their works....Penelope LeFew-Blake has written a book that traces similar vestiges and echoes of Schopenhauer's influence through the lives and works of four prominent women authors--George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing....The world view that informs their novels--a vison focused on the dilemmas and tragedies of real life in a real world dominated by suffering, struggle and disappointment--is, at its root, Schopenhauerian." From the preface by Franklin E. Court
language: English
title: Schopenhauer, Women's Literature, and the Legacy of Pessimism in the Novels of George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing
titlecomplete: Schopenhauer, Women's Literature, and the Legacy of Pessimism in the Novels of George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing (Studies in Comparative Literature)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr