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Article: Playing with fire: women's sexuality and artistry in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples (1).(Critical Essay)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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WHILE THE START OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY finds us with a large, varied, and sophisticated body of criticism about Eudora Welty's fiction, essays, and photographs, there are still some surprising gaps in that criticism. The recent publication of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? moves toward filling in one of those gaps and recognizing the subtle yet pervasive political dimension of Welty's work, a dimension that has been overlooked by some readers, as Harriet Pollack observes in the introduction to that collection, because they fail to realize the degree to which women writers, and Welty in particular, have often approached 'the public and historical ...