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Updated February 14, 1998
Created January 1998 by UAH graduate students Sheri Stanley and Mary Beth
Walker
What are some key critical issues for studying The Voyage Out?
· The women’s movement, feminism (Black, Stanford-Friedman "Spatialization," Froula)
· Narrative voice and the female perspective (Blain)
· Mother – daughter relationships (Moore)
· Sexuality (Tvordi)
· Sexual abuse (DeSalvo "In the Beginning," Swanson)
· Communicating the human experience (Bishop)
· Reading and learning – the allusions (Stanford-Friedman "Pedagogical Scenes")
· Death (Davis-Clapper, Bishop, Vlosopolos, many others)