Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde
Subtitle: War, Civilization, Modernity (Gender and Culture Series)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780231134453
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Europe; European - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / European
First sentence: Born in London in 1882 and educated in her father's library, Virginia Woolf came of age at a moment when, as Leonard Woolf put it, political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized."