Virginia Woolf icon
By: Brenda R. Silver.
Series: Women in culture and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Appreciation.; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.; Women in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Women in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Fear -- Public opinion.; Fear in literature.
Description: "This is a book about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the New York Review of Books to Bass Ale to the Communist Party in Rome. Brenda R. Silver uncovers and analyzes the extensive representations of Virginia Woolf that have circulated in Anglo-American culture for the past thirty-five years.

The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-335) and index.