Reviews: Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain, Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768–1840, Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic, Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf, Conrad's Secrets, British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930–1960, the Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction & the National Security State, on the Ruins of Modernity: New Chicago Renaissance from Wright to Fair, the Black Chicago Renaissance, Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Heather Blurton ◽  
Marion Turner ◽  
Neema Parvini ◽  
Nigel Leask ◽  
Emma Liggins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Female Gothic ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Chicago Renaissance ◽  
National Security State ◽  
British Culture

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hogarth Press

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for post-secondary students, scholars, and common readers. Feminist to the core, each chapter offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six parts focus on Woolf’s life, her texts, her experiments, her as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf’s life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. Part II on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf’s practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf’s experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf’s writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while ‘Professions of Writing’, invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the Times Literary Supplement. Part V on ‘Contexts’ moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final part, ‘Afterlives’, demonstrates the many ways Woolf’s reputation continues to grow. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

“After all, anybody is as their land and air is … ”

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-69
Author(s):  
Vincent P. Pecora
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Howards End ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Between The Acts ◽  
Plumed Serpent

Both Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein confront the need for belonging with a certain American ambivalence, one that can also be found in the novelistic tradition, but their complicated attitudes toward the land of their birth puts the English attitude that we find in George Eliot in sharp relief. The English novel after George Eliot turns increasingly to what has been called questions of agro-romantic values. The chapter looks specifically at such values in Thomas Hardy (Tess of the d’Urbervilles); Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim); D. H. Lawrence (The Rainbow and The Plumed Serpent); E. M. Forster (Howards End and A Passage to India); and Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts).

The Invention of Altruism

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Religion And Ethics ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religion Of Humanity ◽  
British Culture

‘Altruism’ was coined by the French sociologist Auguste Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his ‘cerebral theory’ and as the central ideal of his atheistic ‘Religion of Humanity’. This book traces this new language of ‘altruism’ as it spread through British culture between the 1850s and the 1900s, and in doing so provides a portrait of Victorian moral thought. Drawing attention to the importance of Comtean positivism in setting the agenda for debates about science and religion, this volume challenges received ideas about both Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer as moral philosophers. Darwin saw sympathy and love, not only selfishness and competition, throughout the natural world. Spencer was the instigator of an Anti-Aggression League and an advocate of greater altruism in Britain’s dealings with the ‘lower races’. The book also sheds light on the rise of popular socialism in the 1880s, on the creation of the idealist ‘altruist’ in novels of the 1890s, and on the individualistic philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, and G. E. Moore—authors considered by some to be representative of fin de siècle ‘egomania’. This wide-ranging study in the history of ideas is relevant to contemporary debates about altruism, evolution, religion, and ethics.

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