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The Theme of Peace and War in Virginia Woolf's Writings [electronic resource] : Essays in Her Political Philosophy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Jane M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War in literature.
- Pacifism in literature.
- Feminism in literature.
- Women and war.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Three guineas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays examines how Virginia Woolf's feminism, pacifism and understanding of war influenced her literary output on the topic.
- Contents:
- THE THEME OF PEACE AND WAR IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S WAR WRITINGS: Essays on Her Political Philosophy; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - ""A Chapter on the Future""; Part One - Woolf, War, and Gendered Politics; Chapter 1 - The Value of Three Guineas in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 2 - Woolf and the War Machine; Chapter 3 - Writing as Unraveling: Woolf's Gendered Deconstruction of War; Part Two - Woolf, War, and Image; Chapter 4 - Photographing Violence: Three Guineas and Contemporary Feminist Responses to Images of War
- Chapter 5 - Virginia Woolf in the Age of Aerial BombardmentChapter 6 - Mrs. Dalloway and the Art of Death: Monuments, Merchandise, and Memoirs; Part Three - Woolf, War, and Trauma; Chapter 7 - Pacifying Bloomsbury: Virginia Woolf, Julian Bell, and the Spanish Civil War; Chapter 8 - Thinking Peace into Existence: Narrating Traumaand Mourning in Freud, Woolf, and Morrison; Chapter 9 - What Else Can a Gnat on a Blade of Grass Do?Thinking of War, Writing of Peace; Part Four - Woolf, War, and Pedagogy
- Chapter 10 - The Echo Chambers of War in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas: Teaching the Interconnection of Gender Oppression and Endless WarfareChapter 11 - Active Pacifism in a World at War: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf's Pacifist Theory on Narrative Structure; Chapter 12 - The Practical Wisdom of the ""Educated Man's Daughter"": Feminist Rhetorical Theory and Woolf's Three Guineas; Afterword; Notes on the Contributors; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2163-7
- OCLC:
- 821177127
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