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Virginia Woolf and the Natural World.
Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Woolf Selected Papers LUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf; "We Make Life": Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves; "The Real World": Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism; Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them; "Everything tended to set itself in a garden": Virginia Woolf's Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach; Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf; The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf's "Seven-Sided Flower" and Henri Bergson's Intuition.
- Crowding Clarissa's GardenThe Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew; The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather's One of Ours; Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing; "This, I fancy, must be the sea": Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf 's Writing; Wild Swimming; The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob's Room and Orlando; The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One's Own in Nature and Art.
- "The Bird is the Word": Virginia Woolf and W.H. Hudson, Visionary OrnithologistEvolution, History, and Flush; or, The Origin of Spaniels; "Lappin and Lapinova": A Woolf in Hare's Clothing?; "A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage": Dining Well in Virginia Woolf 's Life and Work; Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway; Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905; "Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate": Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes.
- Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through NatureVirginia Woolf as Mountaineer; "It was an uncertain spring": Reading Weather in The Years; Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy; "Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us": Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf; Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf 's Narration; "To give the moment whole": The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm)unity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
- Spengler's The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W.B YeatsListening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf's Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s; Notes on Contributors; Conference Program.