The Measure of Life : : Virginia Woolf's Last Years /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Marder, Herbert,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 24 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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