Virginia Woolf / Linden Peach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peach, Linden, 1951-

Series:

Critical issues (St. Martin's Press)

Critical issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Political and social views.

Great Britain.

History.

Literature and society--England--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

England.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

Virginia Woolf has emerged from recent scholarship as a less inward-looking and other-worldly writer than she was depicted for more than half a century. However, this is the first book to address the cryptographic nature of her writings about politics and history. Approaching each of her novels in turn through theoretical frameworks provided by Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, and contemporary social theorists, Linden Peach argues that Woolf is a more sophisticated political thinker than has been commonly recognized, interested in historiography, engaged by the coded nature of social "reality "and interrogating the cryptic meanings within public discourse.

Contents:

2 Contexts 14

3 Pent-up Voices: The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919) and 'Kew Gardens' (1919) 40

4 Pre-war England: Jacob's Room (1922) 67

5 'National Conservatism' and 'Conservative Nationalism': Mrs Dalloway (1925) 88

6 Womanhood and Discourse: To the Lighthouse (1927) 113

7 History and Historiography: Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) 137

8 Private and Public Spaces: The Years (1937) 168

9 The Last Years: 'The Shooting Party' (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.

ISBN:

0312228899

0312228910

OCLC:

42290308