General Information

Language

English.

Published

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Physical Description

xiv, 241 p. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Pawlowski, Merry M., 1945-

Contents/Summary

Summary

This unique collection of essays brings together for the first time consideration of Virginia Woolf's writing within the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to Between the Acts, in 1941, for her responses not only to the growing menaces of dictators abroad, but also to mounting evidence of fascist ideology at home in England. The essays present a portrait of Woolf as a woman writer who was politically engaged, and actively protesting against a worldview which aggressively targeted women for oppression.

Subjects

Subject

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Political and social views.

Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Fascism and literature > England > History > 20th century.

Fascism > England > History > 20th century.

Dictatorship in literature.

Dictators in literature.

Fascism in literature.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Merry M. Pawlowski.

Content

1. Virginia Woolf at the Crossroads of Feminism, Fascism and Art: An Introduction / Merry M. Pawlowski -- Part I: Fascism, History, and the Construction of Gender. 2. A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas / Quentin Bell -- 3. Tree Guineas, Fascism, and the Construction of Gender / Marie-Luise Gattens -- 4. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis on Art, Gender and Politics / Merry M. Pawlowski -- 5. Freudian Seduction and the Fallacies of Dictatorship / Vera Neverow -- Part II: Preludes to War: Politics in the Novels, Aesthetics in the Nonfiction. 6. Acts of Artistic Vision, Acts of Aggression: Art and Abyssinia in Virginia Woolf's Fascist Italy / Leigh Coral Harris -- 7. "Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind": Fascism and Chastity in Mrs. Dalloway / Lisa Low -- 8. Of Oceans and Opposition: The Waves, Mosley and the New Party / Jessica Berman -- 9. Monstrous Conjugations: The Anti-Fascist Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf / Natania Rosenfeld -- Part III: Voices Against Tyranny: Woolf Among Other Writers. 10. "Finding new words and creating new methods": Three Guineas and The Handmaid's Tale / Maroula Joannou -- 11. Seduced by Fascism: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, the Woman Who did Not Write Three Guineas / Lia Giachero -- 12. Eternal Fascism and Its "Home Haunts" in the Leavises' Attacks on Bloomsbury and Woolf / Molly Abel Travis -- 13. Dystopian Modernism vs. Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf, and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism / Loretta Stec.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0333801156

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	823/.912 PAW		General Stacks	-

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