Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde: War, Civilization, Modernity

Christine Froula

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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 / £55.00

Preface

1. Civilization and "my civilisation": Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde

2. Rachel's Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out

3. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room

4. Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning

5. Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in To the Lighthouse

6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves

7. The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from The Pargiters to The Years

8. St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in Three Guineas

9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind: Between the Acts of Civilization's Masterplot

Index

Notes

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

Series

• Gender and Culture Series

About the Author

Christine Froula is professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at Northwestern University and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society. Her extensive publications include Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce.

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