Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language / / Judith Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Allen, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645856','ISBN:9780748636754','ISBN:9780748636761','ISBN:9780748674534']);Through close readings of Woolf's essays, including 'Montaigne', A Room of One's Own, 'Craftsmanship', Three Guineas and 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', Allen shows how Woolf's politics are expressed and enacted in her writing. She then works from a wide range of sources to relate Woolf's views and methods to our current political situation. These sources range from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks, from the Northcliffe Press newspaper empire of World War I to today's mainstream newspapers, Rupert Murdoch's empire, satirical news shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show and social media and the blogosphere."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. From Michel de Montaigne to the New Media: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Twenty- First Century -- Part I ‘Theorising’ Reading, ‘Theorising’ Language -- 1 Those Soul Mates: Virginia Woolf and Michel de Montaigne -- 2 Changing Titles/Transforming Texts? -- Part II The Politics of Writing -- 3 The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One’s Own -- 4 Interrogating ‘Wildness’ -- Part III Dialogue and Dissent -- 5 Thinking and Talking/War and Peace -- 6 Virginia Woolf, ‘Patriotism’, and ‘our prostituted factpurveyors -- Conclusion. ‘Thinking Against the Current’ -- Bibliography -- Index