Virginia Woolf : Revaluation and Continuity / edited, with an introduction, by Ralph Freedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freedman, Ralph, editor, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1980]

Summary:

The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and political life as a whole. It points up differences between English and American readers, between older and younger critics, between men and women. Particularly striking in the revaluation is a tendency to approach Woolf as a soliloquist, a person, rather than as a detached and formal artist. In this collection, Ralph Freedman has brought together some of Woolf's most interesting commentators, whose varied concerns, traditional and modern, demonstrate the vitality and scope of Woolf criticism. Virginia Woolf: Revaluation and Continuity contains essays by Ralph Freedman, Harvena Richter, James Hafley, Avrom Fleishman, F. P. W. McDowell, Jane Marcus, Lucio Ruotolo, Maria DiBattista, Jean O. Love, Madeline Moore, James Naremore, and B. H. Fussell. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

References

Part One: Perspectives

1. Introduction: Virginia Woolf, the Novel, and a Chorus of Voices

2. Hunting the Moth: Virginia Woolf and the Creative Imagination

3. Virginia Woolf's Narrators and the Art of "Life Itself

4. Forms of the Woolfi.an Short Story

Part Two: The Sequence

5. "Surely Order Did Prevail": Virginia Woolf and the Voyage Out

6. Enchanted Organs, Magic Bells: Night and Day as Comic Opera

7. The Form of Fact and Fiction: Jacob's Room as Paradigm

8. Mrs. Dalloway: The Unguarded Moment

9. To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's Winter's Tale

10. Orlando and Its Genesis: Venturing and Experimenting in Art, Love, and Sex

11. Nature and Community: A Study of Cyclical Reality in the Waves

12. Nature and History in the Years

13. Woolf's Peculiar Comic World: Between the Acts

Contributors

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-37881-4

OCLC:

1443483952