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Virginia Woolf and the Victorians

Virginia Woolf and the Victorians

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Steve Ellis
Cambridge University Press, 11/15/2007
EAN 9780521882897, ISBN10: 0521882893

Hardcover, 224 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

Introduction
1. Reclamation
Night and Day
2. Synchronicity
Mrs Dalloway
3. Integration
To the Lighthouse
4. Disillusion
The Years
5. Incoherence
the final works
Conclusion.