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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Froula, Christine, 1950-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
Collection:Gender and culture.
Sujets:
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
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231508786
9780231508780

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