The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf
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The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman
Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf's work. Focusing on Woolf's engagement with the artistic theories of her time, Goldman traces the feminist implication of her aesthetics by reclaiming for the everyday world of history and politics what seem to be private mystical moments. Goldman analyses Woolf's fascination with the Post-impressionist exhibition of 1920 and the solar eclipse of 1927 by linking her response to a much wider literary and cultural context. She argues that Woolf evolves a kind of 'feminist prismatics' through which she is able to express and develop both the challenge and pessimism of her feminist vision. Lavishly illustrated with colour pictures, this book will appeal not only to scholars working on Woolf, but also to students of modernism, art history, and women's studies.
'In this innovative and important book, Jane Goldman argues that for Virginia Woolf, aesthetic concerns (with colour in particular) were inseparable from political and especially feminist concernsJane Goldman's book is essential reading not only for readers of Woolf, but also for those interested more generally in modernism and aesthetics.' Suzanne Raitt
Jane Goldman is a General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf's Writings and a Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006) and The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism, and the Politics of the Visual (1998) are two of her books on Virginia Woolf. She is the co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents and the editor of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse for Cambridge University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521794589 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521794587 |
| Title | The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf |
| Author | Jane Goldman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2001-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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