Journal article
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Coleridge, and Jane Ellen Harrison
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In Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) one of the markers of cultural difference between the protagonist and the gypsies she meets in Turkey is linguistic: they have no word for ‘beautiful’, and when Orlando wishes to remark the beauty of a sunset, she has to point and to say, in their language, ‘good to eat.’ In a recent edition of the novel, I suggested that Woolf’s source for the idea may have been Samuel Taylor Coleridge. However, my annotation does not tell the entire story. The classicis...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Notes and Queries Journal website
- Volume:
- 64
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 164–165
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-27
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1471-6941
- ISSN:
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0029-3970
- Source identifiers:
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631897
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- 2016-07-05
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- Copyright holder:
- M Whitworth
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjw253
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