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  title info:
    title: Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf
  name:
    name part: Groover, Kristina K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 214 p. online resource.
  abstract: Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, history, gender and sexuality studies, and other critical fields. The essays in this collection interrogate conventional approaches to the spiritual, and to Woolf's work, while contributing to a larger critical reappraisal of modernism, religion, and secularism. While Woolf's atheism and her sharp criticism of religion have become critical commonplaces, her sometimes withering critique of religion conflicts with what might well be called a religious sensibility in her work. The essays collected here take up a challenge posed by Woolf herself: how to understand her persistent use of religious language, her representation of deeply mysterious human experiences, and her recurrent questions about life's meaning in light of her disparaging attitude toward religion. These essays argue that Woolf's writing reframes and reclaims the spiritual in alternate forms; she strives to find new language for those numinous experiences that remain after the death of God has been pronounced.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction-Desire Lines: The Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf -- 2. "Some restless searcher in me": Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Mysticism -- 3. A God "in process of change": Woolfian Theology and Mrs. Dalloway -- 4. "The thing is in itself enough": Virginia Woolf's Sacred Everyday -- 5. Virginia Woolf Reads "Dover Beach": Romance and the Victorian Crisis of Faith in To the Lighthouse -- 6. Woolf and Hopkins on the Revelatory Particular -- 7. "Perpetual Departure": Sacred Space and Urban Pilgrimage in Woolf's Essays -- 8. Quaker Mysticism and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- 9. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Dostoevsky: The Sacred Space of the Soul -- 10. "She heard the first words": Lesbian Subjectivity and Prophetic Discourse in Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Between the Acts -- 11. Sensibility, Parochiality, Spirituality: Toward a Critical Method and Ethic of Response in Woolf, Spivak, and Mahmood.
  note: edited by Kristina K. Groover.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-20th century
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity-Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
  subject:
    topic: Twentieth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Religion and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Spirituality
  classification: PN770-779
  classification: 809.04
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030325688
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32568-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 191213
    record change date: 20191217061101.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-32568-8