Froula Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde

War, Civilization, Modernity
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-50878-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Froula, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Froula is professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at Northwestern University and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society. Her extensive publications include Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce.