Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf And The Bloomsbury Avant-Garde

War, Civilization, Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury as inheritors of European modernity´s always unfinished Enlightenment project and of an avant-garde in struggles against imperialism, class and sex-gender systems, war, and totalitarianism. At a moment when democracy´s triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured, Woolf and Bloomsbury contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury -from John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolfs´ Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield -and her works embody the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. Relating an ambitious history of Woolf´s writings to currents in contemporary British intellectual life in the first half of the century, Christine Froula illuminates Woolf as a world figure whose art and public voice speak across cultures and languages.

Contents

List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Civilization and "my civilisation": Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde
2. Rachel's Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out
3. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room
4. Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning
5. Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in To the Lighthouse
6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves
7. The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from The Pargiters to The Years
8. St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in Three Guineas
9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind: Between the Acts of Civilization's Masterplot
Index
Notes

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Produktdetails

• Gender & Culture
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780231134446
• ISBN-10: 0231134444
• Artikelnr.: 13641302

Autorenporträt

A past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, Christine Froula is professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at Northwestern University. She publishes on twentieth-century literature and theory and has written Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce (Columbia). She lives in Evanston, Illinois.