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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Froula, Christine, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Gender and culture.
Temas:
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941
Woolf, Virginia.
Bloomsbury group
1900-1999
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.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Angleterre > Londres.
Groupe de Bloomsbury.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Civilization, Modern, in literature
Experimental fiction, English
Intellectual life
Modernism (Literature)
War and literature
Women and literature
Avantgardeliteratur
Bloomsbury (London, England) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
England > London
England > London > Bloomsbury
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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