Virginia Woolf and the Victorians - Ellis, Steve
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Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In Virginia Woolf and the Victorians, Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to yet 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…mehr

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Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In Virginia Woolf and the Victorians, Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to yet 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 new reading of Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present and future.
Autorenporträt
Former journalist, Steve Ellis, worked on the Newcastle Journal, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. He was one of the launch editors of Bella and Take a Break for H Bauer magazines. Red on Green is Steve's third novel. For it he draws on his experience of working across the Indian subcontinent and several months living amongst 'internally displaced persons' in a squalid, disease-ridden camp in Bangladesh. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, Steve now lives in Kent with his wife. He has two grown-up daughters and two granddaughters. He plays the piano, reads avidly, enjoys fly fishing for trout and loves tea.