Virginia Woolf in context /
As a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context, whether historical, cultural or theoretical, is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | As a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context, whether historical, cultural or theoretical, is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies and modernism and postcolonial studies. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-488) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107003613 110700361X |