Virginia Woolf's Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Zink, Suzana (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; British literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; British and Irish Literature.

This book provides a fascinating account of rooms in selected works by Virginia Woolf. Casting them as spaces which are at once material, textual and emotional, the volume shows Woolf's rooms to be consistently connected to wider geographies of modernity and therefore central to her writing of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Re-Reading the Modern
• 3 Out of Rooms: Imperial Routes and the Impasse of Becoming in The Voyage Out
• 4 Night and Day: Great Men's Rooms and Women's Lives
• 5 Trespassing: Spaces of Learning in Jacob's Room
• 6 The Woman's Room: A Room of One's Own and Its Contemporary Readers
• 7 Writing Spatial History: The Years
• 7 Rooms of Memory: "A Sketch of the Past"
• 9 Conclusion.