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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde: War, Civilization, Modernity
Paper, 432 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13445-3
$26.50
/ £18.50
December, 2004
Cloth, 432 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13444-6
$80.00
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"In this brilliant, indeed indispensable, study, Froula (Northwestern Univ.) places Woolf's major works in the context of Bloomsbury as a modernist movement...Essential." — Choice
"Froula pursues her task passionately in a book which is energetic and likeable." — Jim Stewart, Times Literary Supplement
"Christine Froula's Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde is a timely and valuable contribution to Woolf studies emphasizing Woolf's relation to the political, aesthetic, and feminine milieu of her own era and beyond." — Vera Neverow, Modernism / Modernity
"Provocative ... intensely optimistic... Impressive body of work on Woolf and modernism... Provides a fresh and challenging set of readings." — Helen Southworth, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
"Froula's book brims with fresh historical and political insights... [Her] book is crucial." — Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"This major new book is a significant and substantial addition to [Froula's] contribution to Woolf studies." — Janfarie Skinner, Virginia Woolf Bulletin
"Froula's fascinating new book... makes a timely contribution to modernist scholarship." — Jane Garrity, Woolf Studies Annual
"What a pleasure to read Froula’s smart, wide-ranging, and often exquisite book." — Jessica Berman, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
"We can be grateful to Christine Froula for this most stimulating study which significantly broadens the scope of Woolf’s work." — Christine Reynier, In-between
"An important book that restores a public voice to Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. Froula takes pains to show how Woolf's formal experiments crafted the artist's address to a public who witnessed the drama of the two World Wars and momentous social upheaval. In emphasizing Woolf's rhetorical construction of her audience, Froula links Woolf the writer to the Woolfs as publishers of the Hogarth Press. She admirably charts Virginia Woolf's dual ventures of reforming society and re-forming the genre of the novel." — Karen Lawrence, University of California, Irvine
"This is, bar none, the best reading of Woolf's total oeuvre I have ever seen. It will become the standard text of Woolf studies; all future work on Woolf will have to refer to it." — Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University
"Tough-minded, richly detailed, Christine Froula's engaging argument compellingly situates Woolf at the heart of modernism's Enlightenment project. 'Thinking is my fighting,' Woolf wrote; Froula brilliantly does the same, challenging us to take seriously Woolf's provocative assertion that 'this civilisation . . . depends upon me.'" — Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth College