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Author: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Clear Press Ltd ISBN: 9781904555025 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 222
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Portrays the extraordinary relationship between Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and Gwen and Jacques Raverat
Author: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Clear Press Ltd ISBN: 9781904555025 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 222
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Portrays the extraordinary relationship between Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, and Gwen and Jacques Raverat
Author: Gwen Raverat Publisher: Clear Press Ltd ISBN: 9781904555124 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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A facsimile of a 19th century book is a delightful, quirky account, beautifully illustrated with the author's famous line drawings, of her quintessentially English childhood growing up as a Darwin at the end of the 19th century.
Author: Frances Spalding Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1409029417 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 458
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'The best of these Darwins is that they are cut out of rock - three taps is enough to convince one how immense is their solidarity.' So wrote Virginia Woolf affectionately of Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin. In this first full biography, Frances Spalding looks beyond the artist Gwen Raverat's childhood memoir; Period Piece, and creates a fascinating and moving portrait of Charles Darwin's granddaughter. She explores her Darwin inheritance; her conflicts when she moves beyond her home environment to enter the Slade School of Art; her encounter with post-Impressionism; and her friendships with Stanley Spencer, Rupert Brooke and members of the Bloomsbury set. At each stage, Gwen's artistic creativity is interwoven with her relationships and circumstances. She helps revive the medium of wood-engraving and with her husband, Jacques Raverat, celebrates the South of France in the art they produce while living in Venice. Drawing on a huge cache of unpublished papers, Spalding brings us a life lived with bravery, humour; realism and integrity, surrounded by a remarkable cast of relatives, friends and associates.
Author: Julie Vandivere Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1942954093 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 255
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Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries helps us comprehend the ways that women writers and artists contributed to and complicated modernism by contextualizing them alongside Woolf's work.
Author: L. S. Jacyna Publisher: University Rochester Press ISBN: 1580464122 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders and medical challenges. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries countless stories about neurological patients appeared in newspapers, books, medical papers, and films. Often the patients were romanticized; indeed, it was common for physicians to cast neurological patients in a grand performance, allegedly giving audiences access to deep philosophical insights about the meaning of life and being. Beyond these romanticized images, however, the neurological patient was difficult to diagnose. Experiments often approached unethical realms, and treatment created challenges for patients, courts, caregivers, and even for patient advocacy organizations. In this kaleidoscopic study, the contributors illustrate how the neurological patient was constructed in history and came to occupy its role in Western culture. Stephen T. Casper is Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson University. L. Stephen Jacyna is reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
Author: Michael Whitworth Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137547928 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its varying critical reception over the last ninety years. As the novel concerns itself with women's place in society, war and madness, it was naturally interpreted differently in the ages of second wave feminism, the Vietnam War and the anti-psychiatry movement. This has, of course, created a rather daunting number of different readings. Michael H. Whitworth contextualizes the most important critical work and draws attention to the distinctive discourses of critical schools, noting their endurance and interplay. Whitworth also examines how adaptations, such as Michael Cunningham's The Hours, can act as critical works in themselves, creating an invaluable guide to Mrs Dalloway.
Author: Robin Majumdar Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134724055 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 484
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One of the most outstandingly imaginative and creative novelists of the twentieth century. Co-founder of the 'Hogarth Press'. Writings include: Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves. Volume covers the period 1915-1941.
Author: Susan Sellers Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107495539 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 300
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Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources.a
Author: Marjorie Garber Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300267568 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 401
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The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."--Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication--the novels, biographies, economic and political writings, stage designs and reviews--but also their diaries and correspondence, their gossip and small talk turned regularly on Shakespeare. They read his plays for pleasure in the evenings, and on sunny summer afternoons in the country. They went to the theater, discussed performances, and speculated about Shakespeare's mind. As poet, as dramatist, as model and icon, as elusive "life," Shakespeare haunted their imaginations and made his way, through phrase, allusion, and oblique reference, into their own lives and art. This is a book about Shakespeare in Bloomsbury--about the role Shakespeare played in the lives of a charismatic and influential cast, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova Keynes, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, and James and Alix Strachey. All are brought to sparkling life in Marjorie Garber's intimate account of how Shakespeare provided them with a common language, a set of reference points, and a model for what they did not hesitate to call genius. Among these brilliant friends, Garber shows, Shakespeare was in effect another, if less fully acknowledged, member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Author: Gwen Raverat
Author: Frances Spalding
Author: Julie Vandivere
Author: L. S. Jacyna
Author: Gwen Raverat
Author: Michael Whitworth
Author: Robin Majumdar
Author: Susan Sellers
Author: Marjorie Garber