Critical Insights: Virginia Woolf

Author Laura Nicosia - James F. Nicosia

Publisher Salem Press

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Author

Laura Nicosia - James F. Nicosia

Publisher

Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2022

ISBN13

9781637003527

Release

Format

eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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TBD

Overview

The current social and political climate fosters a new appreciation for Woolf's writings, in particular her critiques of social marginalization, gender identities, queerness, and sexual cultures. This volume offers these valuable and necessary conversations in language that is accessible and yet scholarly.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume: Reimagining Virginia Woolf.
On Virginia Woolf: Twentieth-Century Writer for the Twenty-First Century.
Biography of Virginia Woolf.
1: Critical Contexts.
2: Historical Context: Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Authorship.
3: Critical Reception of Virginia Woolf: Woolf Belongs to No One Movement.
4: “That Detestable Place”: Destroying (and Rebuilding) Cambridge with Virginia Woolf.
5: Public Spaces and Private Places in The Portrait of a Lady and Mrs. Dalloway.
6: Critical Readings.
7: “A Granite Wall in the Darkness”: Feminine Temporality in Mrs. Dalloway.
8: Intertextual Einsteinian Relativity in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.
9: Breaking Down the Ideology of Separate Spheres: The Time Concepts in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.
10: Polyphony in The Waves by Virginia Woolf and In the Shadow of the Wind by Anne Hébert.
11: Narrative Streams of Consciousness: (Re)Telling Perceptive Experiences in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography and Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad.
12: Human/Nonhuman Symbiosis in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
13: Virginia Woolf Empowers Female Agency in Androgynous Figures from Pre-Raphaelite Paintings.
14: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and the Modernist Family Saga.
15: Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf: The Novelists’ Art.
16: Parties, Pins, and Perspective: Eudora Welty, Virginia Woolf, and Matrilineal Inheritance.
Resources.
Chronology of Virginia Woolf’s Life.
Works by Virginia Woolf.
Bibliography.
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Index.
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