Virginia Woolf and the Victorians

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Steve Ellis

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Hardback

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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.

Author Biography:

Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Release date Australia

November 15th, 2007

Author

Steve Ellis

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

224

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780521882897

Product ID

2162073

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