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1 online resource (xviii, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. "Messages of peace" : Bloomsbury's peace terms; or, Working for "ancient woolf's peace-time university" / Jane Goldman -- 2. Woolf and criticism in the time of post-critique : "How should one read a book?" and The Common Reader / Jeff Wallace -- 3. Reason, ridicule, and indifference : the rhetoric of nonviolence and collective security in the essays of Virginia and Leonard Woolf / Charles Andrews -- 4. An ethics of wartime protest : voicing servant characters in To the Lighthouse and The Years / Eleanor McNees -- 5. "Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other" : Virginia Woolf's pacifist ethics / Elsa Högberg -- 6. "[A]s if some animal were dying in a slow but exquisite anguish" : glimpses of animal trauma in the work of Woolf / Jeanne Dubino -- 7. The disintegration of sense and bodies in pain : Woolf, Wittgenstein, and the rhetoric of war / Madelyn Detloff and Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. -- 8. Breaking the peace : the Darwinian politics of Virginia Woolf's "creature, Dictator" / Saskia McCracken -- 9. Woolf, weeping women, and the European mater dolorosa / Gill Lowe -- Retracing relations. 10. "Peace was the third emotion" : tripartite balance in Between the acts / Rachel Crossland -- 11. "Real loyalities" : war, sibling love, and loss in The voyage out and Night and day / Jenni Råback -- 12. Thoughts on flowering in an air raid : apples and poppies--alive, alive oh! / Elisa Kay Sparks -- 13. Between aesthetic and political theory : Virginia Woolf's Utopian pacifism / Caroline Pollentier -- 14. Intersections : propaganda and Just War theory / Judith Allen -- 15. Radical hope as protest : Virginia Woolf's everyday feminism / Stanislava Dikova |
| Summary |
"From the 'prying,' 'insidious' 'fingers of the European War' that Septimus Warren Smith would never be free of in Mrs Dalloway to the call to 'think peace into existence' during the Blitz in 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid,' questions of war and peace pervade the writings of Virginia Woolf. This volume asks how Woolf conceptualised peace by exploring the various experimental forms she created in response to war and violence. Comprised of fifteen chapters by an international array of leading and emerging scholars, this book both draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf's modernist aesthetic and draws on various critical frameworks for reading her work, in order to deepen our understanding of her writing about the politics of war, ethics, feminism, class, animality, and European culture"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Peter Adkins is an assistant lecturer at the University of Kent. Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent |
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Print version record |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Pacifism in literature -- Congresses
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Literature and transnationalism -- Congresses
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Politics and literature -- Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Modernism (Literature) -- Europe -- Congresses
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Pacifism in literature.
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Literature and transnationalism.
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Politics and literature -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Modernism (Literature) -- Europe
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Intellectual life
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Literature and transnationalism
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Modernism (Literature)
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Pacifism in literature
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Politics and literature
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
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Europe
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proceedings (reports)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Adkins, Peter, editor.
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Ryan, Derek, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781949979381 |
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1949979385 |
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