Virginia Woolf
By: Linden Peach.
Series: Critical issues; Critical issues (St. Martin's Press)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Virginia Woolf is one of the great innovators of the modernist novel and a seminal figure in feminist writings. In this new book discussing the whole of Woolf's fiction, Linden Peach argues that Woolf was also a more sophisticated political thinker than has been generally recognised, interested in the complex relationship between history, politics, and language.

In particular, Peach shows how Woolf's fiction explores the dialogic relationship between past and present and the coded and concealed meanings of public discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: 2 Contexts 14; title: 3 Pent-up Voices: The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919) and 'Kew Gardens' (1919) 40; title: 4 Pre-war England: Jacob's Room (1922) 67; title: 5 'National Conservatism' and 'Conservative Nationalism': Mrs Dalloway (1925) 88; title: 6 Womanhood and Discourse: To the Lighthouse (1927) 113; title: 7 History and Historiography: Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) 137; title: 8 Private and Public Spaces: The Years (1937) 168; title: 9 The Last Years: 'The Shooting Party' (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) 195; title: 10 Conclusion 214.