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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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
Table of Contents:
  • Civilization and "my civilisation" : Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde
  • Rachel's Great War : civilization, sacrifice, and the enlightenment of women in Melymbrosia and The voyage out
  • The death of Jacob Flanders : Greek illusion and modern war in Jacob's room
  • Mrs. Dalloway's postwar elegy : women, war, and the art of mourning
  • Picture the world : the quest for the thing itself in To the lighthouse
  • A fin in a waste of waters : women, genius, freedom in Orlando, A room of one's own, and The waves
  • The sexual life of women: experimental genres, experimental publics from The Pargiters to The years
  • St. Virginia's epistle to an English gentleman : sex, violence, and the public sphere in Three guineas
  • The play in the sky of the mind : Between the acts of civilization's masterplot.

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