A Room of One's Own
A Sketch of the Past
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Adage
Aestheticism
Aldous Huxley
Anti-imperialism
Anxiety of influence
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Big lie
Bildungsroman
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Clarissa
Diary
E. M. Forster
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Exchange of women
Excursus
Gender Trouble
Gluttony
Hate Man
Hubris
Iconoclasm
Inception
Incest
Jonathan Dollimore
Judith Butler
Leonard Wolf
Leonard Woolf
Literary modernism
Locrine
Lytton Strachey
Meanness
Memoir
Metonymy
Mr.
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs.
Narcissism
Negative capability
Nostalgia
Obscenity
On Being Ill
On the Eve
Pacifism
Parody
Personal History
Philistinism
Portrait of a Marriage
Postmodernism
Princess Marie Bonaparte
Prostitution
Pun
Racism
Ridicule
Round Table
Satire
Secrecy (book)
Superiority (short story)
Terence
Tevye
The Angel in the House
The Duchess and the Jeweller
The Philosopher
The Realist
The Way of All Flesh
The Well of Loneliness
Tragicomedy
V.
Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West
Warfare
Without Her Consent
Woolf
Product details
- ISBN 9780691089607
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both partners and carried over into literary modernism itself, in part through the influence of the Woolfs' groundbreaking publishing company, the Hogarth Press. In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Natania Rosenfeld illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity. At the time of the Woolfs' marriage, Leonard was a penniless ex-colonial administrator, a fervent anti-imperialist, a committed socialist, a budding novelist, and an assimilated Jew who vacillated between fierce pride in his ethnicity and repudiation of it. Virginia was an "intellectual aristocrat," socially privileged by her class and family background but hobbled through gender. Leonard helped Virginia elucidate her own prejudices and elitism, and his political engagements intensified her identification with outsiders in British society.
Rosenfeld discovers an aesthetic of intersubjectivity constantly at work in Virginia Woolf's prose, links this aesthetic to the intermeshed literary lives of the Woolfs, and connects both these sites of dialogue to the larger sociopolitical debates--about imperialism, capitalism, women, sexuality, international relations, and, finally, fascism--of their historical place and time.
Natania Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of English at Knox College. Her articles and poetry have appeared in various journals
