Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language

Judith Allen

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Judith Allen, University of Pennsylvania

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2012
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9780748636761

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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Through close readings of Woolf's essays including 'Montaigne' A Room of One's Own 'Craftsmanship' Three Guineas and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid' Allen shows how Woolf's politics expressed and enacted by her writings are relevant to our current political situation.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Dedication
pp viii-viii

Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction: From Michel de Montaigne to the New Media: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Twenty-First Century
pp 1-14

Part I - ‘Theorising’ Reading, ‘Theorising’ Language
pp 15-16

1 - Those Soul Mates: Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne
pp 17-39

2 - Changing Titles/Transforming Texts?
pp 40-54

Part II - The Politics of Writing
pp 55-56

3 - The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One's Own
pp 57-64

4 - Interrogating ‘Wildness’
pp 65-82

Part III - Dialogue and Dissent
pp 83-84

5 - Thinking and Talking/War and Peace
pp 85-96

6 - Virginia Woolf, ‘Patriotism’, and ‘our prostituted fact purveyors’
pp 97-112

Conclusion: ‘Thinking Against the Current’
pp 113-118

Bibliography
pp 119-126

Index
pp 127-133

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