{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-of-intimacy-9781350237438","title":"Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElsa Högberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a research fellow in English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides a compelling and uncommonly detailed examination of the ethical and political dimensions of Modernist interiority in Virginia Woolf’s fiction. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis major new contribution to Woolf and modernist studies combines brilliant close readings of the novels with a sophisticated and searching theoretical framework.  It opens up questions of intimacy and interiority, ethics and affect, and principles of non-violence, in highly original and compelling ways.  Developing a model of an ethics of intimacy and politicising Woolf’s modernist writing of interiority, it affords new ways of understanding the place of ethics and aesthetics in the charged context of the interwar years. * Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eIntimacy itself is knowledge is the startling revelation of Virginia Woolf's writing, Elsa Högberg convincingly argues, in this stunningly insightful and truly timely new work, \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e.  Högberg recognises and lucidly delineates Woolf's importance for more recent developments in an emergent and compelling post-Levinasian ethics and aesthetics of intimacy evident in major late twentieth-century and twenty-first century feminist works such as Julia Kristeva's \u003ci\u003eIntimate Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e, Luce Irigaray's \u003ci\u003eSharing the World\u003c\/i\u003e and Judith Butler's \u003ci\u003eFrames of War\u003c\/i\u003e. Like waters poured into one jar, Högberg places these thinkers in fluent and intimate dialogue with Woolf's writings—unfolding scintillating new readings of \u003ci\u003eJacob's Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e and likewise reflecting back on the achievements of Kristeva, Irigaray and Butler—in order to clarify an emergent and radical ethics of intimacy that revises received understandings of autonomous subjectivity and subjects-in-process, of encounters with the other, of vulnerability and violence, of interiority and affect. If you think you understand what Woolf meant by her famous injunction 'Look within', then think again: Högberg will help you grasp anew the political and ethical radicality of that injunction. Pay full attention to this thrilling and urgent work of outstanding scholarship which makes possible a powerful ethical model of radical intimacy with a capacity for non-violent resistance to patriarchy, fascism and war, and also for a replenishing affective intensity, a reparative lyric jouissance by which we might begin to think peace into existence. * Jane Goldman, Reader in English, University of Glasgow, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy   1. \u003ci\u003eJacob’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e: Modernist Melancholia and the Eclipse of Primal Intimacy   2. “An inner meaning almost expressed”: Introspection as Revolt in \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Post-Impressionist Intimacy and the Visual Ethics of \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e   4. Chalk Marks: Violence and Vulnerability in \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084837122391,"sku":"9781350237438","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350237438.jpg?v=1762207309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-of-intimacy-9781350237438","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}