| Description |
xvii, 428 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and culture
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Gender and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Civilization and "my civilisation" : Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde -- Rachel's Great War : civilization, sacrifice, and the enlightenment of women in Melymbrosia and The voyage out -- The death of Jacob Flanders : Greek illusion and modern war in Jacob's room -- Mrs. Dalloway's postwar elegy : women, war, and the art of mourning -- Picture the world : the quest for the thing itself in To the lighthouse -- A fin in a waste of waters : women, genius, freedom in Orlando, A room of one's own, and The waves -- The sexual life of women: experimental genres, experimental publics from The Pargiters to The years -- St. Virginia's epistle to an English gentleman : sex, violence, and the public sphere in Three guineas -- The play in the sky of the mind : Between the acts of civilization's masterplot. |
| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- London -- Literature and the war.
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Women and literature -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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England -- London. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Experimental fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction, English. |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- England -- London.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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Modernism (Literature) -- England -- London.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Civilization, Modern, in literature.
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Civilization, Modern, in literature. |
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Bloomsbury group.
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Bloomsbury group. |
| ISBN |
0231134444 cloth alkaline paper |
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