Outsiders together
Subtitle: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
By: Natania Rosenfeld.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views; Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 -- Political and social views; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Marriage; Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 -- Marriage; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century; Political scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Married people -- Great Britain -- Biography; Marginality, Social, in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- England; Authorship -- Collaboration
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Natania Rosenfeld illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity.".

"At the time of the Woolfs' marriage, Leonard was a penniless ex-colonial administrator, a fervent anti-imperialist, a committed socialist, a budding novelist, and an assimilated Jew who vacillated between fierce pride in his ethnicity and repudiation of it. Virginia was an "intellectual aristocrat," socially privileged by her class and family background but hobbled through gender.

Leonard helped Virginia elucidate her own prejudices and elitism, and his political engagements intensified her identification with outsiders in British society.".

"Rosenfeld discovers an aesthetic of intersubjectivity constantly at work in Virginia Woolf's prose, links this aesthetic to the intermeshed literary lives of the Woolfs, and connects both these sites of dialogue to the larger sociopolitical debates - about imperialism, capitalism, women, sexuality, international relations, and, finally, fascism - of their historical place and time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.