Includes Bibliographical references and Index.

This book traces Woolf's art and though in dialogue with Bloomsbury, Britain's modern heir to the unfinished Enlightment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace. For Bloomsbury the 1914 'civil war' exposed barbarity within European civilization, the Versailles Peace fostered totalitarianism and led to the second world war. An avant-garde in the struggle against the violence within, Bloomsbury contributed richly to interwar debates as liberal democracy, socialism, fascism, and communism contended over Europe's future.

From her first novel, 'The Voyage Ou', to her last, 'Between the Acts, Woolf honed her public voice alongside Bloomsbury contemporaries John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield and others. An ambitious analysis of Woolf's major writings in light of the historical conditions to which they respond, this volume illuminates the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post Enlightenment thought and opens a new chapter in Woolf studies.

Christine Froula is professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies.
And a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society.
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Jacob's room - Mrs. Dalloway - To The Lighthouse - Orlando - A Room of One's own - The waves - The Years

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