Modernist waterscapes : water, imagination and materiality in the works of Virginia Woolf / Marlene Dirschauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dirschauer, Marlene, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

John Louis Haney Fund.

Series:

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Water in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 221 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Waterscapes

1.1 Modernism and Water: 'Blueing' Virginia Woolf

1.2 The Materiality of Metaphor

1.3 Mapping Modernist Waterscapes

References

Chapter 2: Aqueous Affinities: Woolf, Bachelard and the English Romantic Poets

2.1 Bachelard's Water and Dreams and Woolf's Poetics of Water

2.2 Woolf's Waterscapes: 'More Congenial to Me Than Any Human Being'

2.3 'And Myself So Eliminated of Human Features': Water and the Appeal of the Impersonal

2.4 From the 'Incessant Shower' to the 'Bottom of the Sea': Woolf's Dialectics of Surface and Depth

2.5 Writing in Water: Woolf, Keats and the Possibilities of Ambiguity

Chapter 3: 'How It Floats Me Afresh': Water in Woolf's Early Experimental Fiction

3.1 'And We, Submerged, Widen Our Eyes Again': Exploring New Territories in the Early Stories

3.2 The Blue Air-Ball Beneath the Fountain: Elusive (Subject) Matter in Jacob's Room

Chapter 4: The Fluid Texture of Time: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves

4.1 The Rhythm Between Depth and Surface: Competing Temporalities in Mrs. Dalloway

4.2 'In the Face of the Flowing': Movement and Ecstasis in To the Lighthouse

4.3 The Aggregate States of Time: (Re)Writing Literary History in Orlando

4.4 'And Time Lets Fall Its Drop': Saturating the Moment in The Waves

Chapter 5: 'The Obscure Body of the Sea': Female Bodies, Water and Artistic Creation from The Voyage Out to The Waves

5.1 The Voyage Out: The Young Woman and the Sea

5.2 'To Move and Float and Sink': Artistic Immersion in To the Lighthouse

5.3 Attached to the Sea: Fluid Bodies in The Waves

Chapter 6: 'Floating Down a River into Silence': Water in Woolf's Later Works

6.1 'And Then We Sank into Silences': The Metapoetics of The Waves

6.2 The Silence of the Fish: Opaque Water and the Constraints of Language in Between the Acts

6.3 'The Watering Place': The Deterioration of Words into Wastewater

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 13, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Louis Haney Fund.

ISBN:

9783031134210

3031134214

Publisher Number:

99995500736

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.