LEADER 04967nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910452030803321 005 20210603012704.0 010 $a0-231-50878-6 024 7 $a10.7312/frou13444 035 $a(CKB)1000000000455589 035 $a(EBL)908494 035 $a(OCoLC)60896964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267716 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191886 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267716 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209018 035 $a(PQKB)11775050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908494 035 $a(DE-B1597)458873 035 $a(OCoLC)1013935284 035 $a(OCoLC)979953807 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231508780 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908494 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183469 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666592 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000455589 100 $a20040617d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVirginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde$b[electronic resource] $ewar, civilization, modernity /$fChristine Froula 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (812 p.) 225 1 $aGender and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-13445-2 311 0 $a0-231-13444-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tPreface --$t1. Civilization and "my civilisation" --$t2. Rachel's Great War --$t3. The Death of Jacob Flanders --$t4. Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy --$t5. Picture the World --$t6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters --$t7. The Sexual Life of Women --$t8. St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman --$t9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aVirginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace-and, in E. M. Forster's words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"- the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future at a moment when democracy's triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury- John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolf's 'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others-and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts. 410 0$aGender and culture. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xLiterature and the war$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aExperimental fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zEngland$zLondon 606 $aCivilization, Modern, in literature 606 $aBloomsbury group 607 $aBloomsbury (London, England)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xLiterature and the war 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aExperimental fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aCivilization, Modern, in literature. 615 0$aBloomsbury group. 676 $a823/.912 700 $aFroula$b Christine$f1950-$0769940 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452030803321 996 $aVirginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde$91570294 997 $aUNINA