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Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist
Clara Jones
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Description for Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist
Paperback. This book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; DS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Clara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Drawing on extensive archival research into these organisations, Jones also positions Woolf's activism with regard to the institutional contexts in which she worked. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary ... Read more
Clara Jones re-reads Woolf's fiction and non-fiction in light of her examination of the details of Woolf's involvement with Morley College, the People's Suffrage Federation, the Women's Co-operative Guild and the National Federation of Women's Institutes. Drawing on extensive archival research into these organisations, Jones also positions Woolf's activism with regard to the institutional contexts in which she worked. Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist demonstrates the degree to which Woolf was sensitive to the internal politics and conflicts of the bodies she was associated with and the ways in which she interrogated her ambivalent attitudes towards her activism throughout her literary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474423168
SKU
V9781474423168
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About Clara Jones
Clara Jones is Lecturer in Modern Literature at King's College London.
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