Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity /
Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury -- from John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Katherine Mansfield -- and her works embody the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlighten...
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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.