Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity /

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Froula, Christine, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005
Series:Gender and culture.
Subjects:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
World War, 1914-1918 > England > London > Literature and the war.
Women and literature > England > London > History > 20th century.
Experimental fiction, English > History and criticism.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > England > London.
Modernism (Literature) > England > London.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
Bloomsbury group.
Bloomsbury (London, England) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe ""might really be on the brink of becoming civilized, "" as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinishe
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231508786
9780231508780
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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