The Measure of Life : : Virginia Woolf's Last Years / / Herbert Marder.
This elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on totalitarianism and her depictions of Britain under s...
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Marder, Herbert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Measure of Life : Virginia Woolf's Last Years / Herbert Marder. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource (448 p.) : 24 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Editorial Note -- Prelude: The Shapes a Mind Holds -- 1. Human Nature Undressed -- 2. A Taste of Salt -- 3. Lady Rosebery’s Party -- 4. God’s Fist -- 5. Ghosts: The Empty Room -- 6. Ghosts: From the Acropolis -- 7. Anonymity and Rhythm -- 8. The Firing of Nelly Boxall -- 9. Acts in a Play -- 10. On Being Despised -- 11. Slow Motion: The Years -- 12. An Inch of the Pattern: The Years -- 13. Antigone’s Daughters -- 14. A Purple Background -- 15. To the Altar -- 16. Weeping Willie -- 17. Oblivion and Water -- 18. Time Passes -- Appendix: The Wilberforce Letters -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This elegantly written and richly detailed biography tells the story of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on totalitarianism and her depictions of Britain under siege to create a remarkable portrait of a mature and renowned writer during a time of rising fascist violence.An awareness of personal danger, Marder says, colored Woolf's actions and consciousness in the years leading up to World War II. She practiced her art with intense dedication and was much admired for her wit and vivacity. But she had previously tried to kill herself, and she asserted her right to die if her manic-depressive illness became intolerable. Waves and water haunted her imagination; visions of drowning recurred in her work. The Measure of Life suggests that Woolf anticipated her suicide, and indeed enacted it symbolically many times before the event. Marder's account of her death emphasizes the importance of her relationship with her doctor and distant cousin, Octavia Wilberforce. Wilberforce's letters about Woolf's last months, including some previously unpublished passages, appear in the appendix.Staying close to the spirit of Woolf's own writing, Marder traces her evolving social consciousness in the 1930s, connecting her growing concern with politics and social history with the facts of her daily life. He stresses her endurance as a working writer, and explores her friendships, her complex relations with servants, and her activities at the Hogarth Press. The Measure of Life illuminates the unspoken quarrels and obscure acts of courage that provide a key, as Woolf herself believed, to the hidden roots of our existence. By letting the reader see events as Virginia Woolf saw them, Marder's compelling narrative captures both her unique comic spirit and her profound seriousness. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Novelists, English 20th century Biography. England. Literary Studies. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728464 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501728464 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501728464/original |
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