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Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
Hardback
Main Details
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Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Steve Ellis
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:224 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521882897
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Classifications | Dewey:823.912 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
15 November 2007 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In this 2007 book, Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to anxiety about modernity coexists with a nostalgia and respect for aspects of Victorian culture threatened by radical social change. Ellis tracks Woolf's response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian' than 'modernist'. He explains how Woolf's emphasis on continuity and reconciliation related to twentieth-century debates about Victorian values, and he analyses her response to the First World War as the major threat to that continuity. This detailed and original investigation of the range of Woolf's writing attends to questions of cultural and political history and fictional structure, imagery and diction. It proposes a fresh reading of Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present and future.
Author Biography
Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Reviews'There is ... a fascinating and thought-provoking examination, recurring throughout the book, of light and shadow in her work.' Virginia Woolf Bulletin
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