Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity / Christine Froula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Froula, Christine, 1950-

Series:

Gender and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Modernism (Literature).

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Women and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Bloomsbury (London, England)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Bloomsbury (London, England).

World War, 1914-1918--England--London--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

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

Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction, English.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--England--London.

Modernism (Literature)--England--London.

Civilization, Modern, in literature.

Bloomsbury group.

England--London.

Physical Description:

xvii, 428 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]

Summary:

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-Enlightenment thought. Relating an ambitious history of Woolf's writings to currents in contemporary British intellectual life in the first half of the century, Christine Froula illuminates Woolf as a world figure whose art and public voice speak across cultures and languages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-414) and index.

ISBN:

0231134444

OCLC:

55744650