Steve Ellis

Virginia Woolf and the Victorians (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511373183
• Artikelnr.: 38184391

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.