Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde
Subtitle: war, civilization, modernity
By: Christine Froula.
Series: Gender and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war -- England -- London; Women and literature -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- England -- London; Modernism (Literature) -- England -- London; Civilization, Modern, in literature; Bloomsbury group; Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "An ambitious account of her major writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's voyages, toward "new lands," "new civilisations" from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.