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Author:

Froula, Christine, 1950-

Title:

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity / Christine Froula.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvii, 428 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war--London.--London.
Women and literature--London--London--History--20th century.
Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--London.--London.
Modernism (Literature)--London.--London.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
Bloomsbury group.
Bloomsbury (London, England)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Civilization and "my civilisation" : Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde -- Rachel's Great War : civilization, sacrifice, and the enlightenment of women in Melymbrosia and The voyage out -- The death of Jacob Flanders : Greek illusion and modern war in Jacob's room -- Mrs. Dalloway's postwar elegy : women, war, and the art of mourning -- Picture the world : the quest for the thing itself in To the lighthouse -- A fin in a waste of waters : women, genius, freedom in Orlando, A room of one's own, and The waves -- The sexual life of women: experimental genres, experimental publics from The Pargiters to The years -- St. Virginia's epistle to an English gentleman : sex, violence, and the public sphere in Three guineas -- The play in the sky of the mind : Between the acts of civilization's masterplot.

Series:

Gender and culture

ISBN:

9780231134446 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231134444 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55744650

LCCN:

2004052774

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)