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Book SynopsisTraces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts".
Trade ReviewIn this brilliant, indeed indispensable, study, Froula (Northwestern Univ.) places Woolf's major works in the context of Bloomsbury as a modernist movement...Essential. Choice Froula pursues her task passionately in a book which is energetic and likeable. -- Jim Stewart Times Literary Supplement Christine Froula's Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde is a timely and valuable contribution to Woolf studies emphasizing Woolf's relation to the political, aesthetic, and feminine milieu of her own era and beyond. -- Vera Neverow Modernism / Modernity Provocative... intensely optimistic... Impressive body of work on Woolf and modernism... Provides a fresh and challenging set of readings. -- Helen Southworth Virginia Woolf Miscellany Froula's book brims with fresh historical and political insights... [Her] book is crucial. -- Julia Keller Chicago Tribune This major new book is a significant and substantial addition to [Froula's] contribution to Woolf studies. -- Janfarie Skinner Virginia Woolf Bulletin Froula's fascinating new book... makes a timely contribution to modernist scholarship. -- Jane Garrity Woolf Studies Annual What a pleasure to read Froula's smart, wide-ranging, and often exquisite book. -- Jessica Berman Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature We can be grateful to Christine Froula for this most stimulating study which significantly broadens the scope of Woolf's work. -- Christine Reynier In-between
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface 1. Civilization and "my civilisation": Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde 2. Rachel's Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out 3. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room 4. Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning 5. Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in To the Lighthouse 6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves 7. The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from The Pargiters to The Years 8. St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in Three Guineas 9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind: Between the Acts of Civilization's Masterplot Notes Index
