Virginia Woolf's late cultural criticism : the genesis of 'The years,' 'Three guineas' and 'Between the acts' / Alice Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Alice (Lecturer in English), author.

Series:

Historicizing Modernism

Bloomsbury collections

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Between the acts.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Three guineas.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Years.

Culture in literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

"After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex textual histories of The Years (1937), Three Guineas (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) to expose the genesis and evolution of Virginia Woolf's late cultural criticism. Fusing a feminist-historicist approach with the practices and principles of genetic criticism, this innovative study scrutinizes a range of holograph, typescript and proof documents within their historical context to uncover the writing and thinking processes that produced Woolf's cultural analysis during 1931-1941. By demonstrating that Woolf's late cultural criticism developed through her literary experimentalism as well as in response to contemporary social, political and economic upheavals, this book offers a fresh perspective on her emergence as a cultural commentator in her final decade and paves the way for further genetic enquiries in the field."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Critiquing Patriarchy in the Years of The Years

3. The Evolution of Woolf's Feminist-Pacifism in Three Guineas

4. Writing Art in Times of Chaos in Between the Acts

5. Conclusion

Notes

Appendices

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441148728 (electronic book)

9781472544162

1472544161

9781441107411

144110741X

9781441148728

1441148728

OCLC:

854634787