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"The finest critical book on Virgina Woolf to date. Alex Zwerdling's large and subtle study places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. The book leaves us with renewed appreciation for Woolf's work and for her mind."
-Elaine Showalter, Princeton University
"Buried beneath piles of criticism Virginia Woolf has at last been dug out by Alex Zwerdling. Virginia Woolf and the Real World is the most enlightened account of the real woman to appear for years."
-Noel Annan, The Observer
"A relief from the Bloomsbury fan dub: penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work."
-Richard Mayne, Encounter
"A well written book that deals with a field of Woolf studies that badly needs dear thinking and dear expression .... I think it a most useful work and in every way first rate."
-Quentin Bell
-Elaine Showalter, Princeton University
"Buried beneath piles of criticism Virginia Woolf has at last been dug out by Alex Zwerdling. Virginia Woolf and the Real World is the most enlightened account of the real woman to appear for years."
-Noel Annan, The Observer
"A relief from the Bloomsbury fan dub: penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work."
-Richard Mayne, Encounter
"A well written book that deals with a field of Woolf studies that badly needs dear thinking and dear expression .... I think it a most useful work and in every way first rate."
-Quentin Bell
Price: $33.95
Pages: 375
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 October 1987
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520061842
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Alex Zwerdling is University Professor of English at George Washington University.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE
1. The Enormous Eye
2. The Reluctant Satirist
3. Jacob'sR oom:W oolf's Satiric Elegy
PART TWO
4. Class and Money
5. Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System
6. The Bonds of Family Life
7. The Domestic Politics of To the Lighthouse
8. Woolf's Feminism in Historical Perspective
9. Anger and Conciliation in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
10. Pacifism Without Hope
11. Between the Acts and the Coming of War
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE
1. The Enormous Eye
2. The Reluctant Satirist
3. Jacob'sR oom:W oolf's Satiric Elegy
PART TWO
4. Class and Money
5. Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System
6. The Bonds of Family Life
7. The Domestic Politics of To the Lighthouse
8. Woolf's Feminism in Historical Perspective
9. Anger and Conciliation in A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
10. Pacifism Without Hope
11. Between the Acts and the Coming of War
Epilogue
Notes
Index