Title The feminist aesthetics of Virginia Woolf : modernism, post-impressionism, and the politics of the visual / Jane Goldman

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xi, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm Contents 1. Introduction: interrupted moments -- 2. Virginia Woolf: heliotropics, subjectivity and feminism -- 3. The astonishing moment -- 4. The amusing game -- 5. The gathering crowd -- 6. The chasing of the sun and the victory of the colours -- 7. Elegiacs: capsizing light and returning colour -- 8. The death of the sun and the return of the fish -- 9. Post-Impressionism: the explosion of colour -- 10. Romantic to Classic: Post-Impressionist theories from 1910 to 1912 -- 11. The new prismatics: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and English Post-Impressionism -- 12. 'Her pictures stand for something': Woolf's forewords to Bell's paintings -- 13. To the Lighthouse: purple triangle and green shawl -- 14. The Waves: purple buttons and white foam -- 15. Conclusion Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views. Aesthetics, British -- 20th century. Aesthetics, British. Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. Modernism (Literature) -- England. Art and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 29th century Post-impressionism (Art) -- England. Visual perception in literature. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century. LC no. 98228479 ISBN 0521590965

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