Virginia Woolf's late cultural criticism : the genesis of 'the years', 'three guineas' and 'between the acts' / Alice Wood.

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After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex textual histories of The Years (1937), Three Guineas (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) to expose the genesis and evolution of Virginia Woolf's late cultural criticism. Fusing a feminist-historicist approach with the practices and principles of genetic criticism, this innovative study scrutiniz.

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Historicizing Modernism; Abbreviations; Pre-Publication Texts Referenced within Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism; Editorial Symbols; 1 Introducing Late Woolf; British society and literature, 1931-41; Woolf in the 1930s and beyond; A genetic approach to Woolf; 2 Critiquing Patriarchy in the Years of The Years; Tracing origins: 'The Turn of the Tide', 1931; The Years: Planning and writing and changing direction; Writing a novel of fact; Conclusion; 3 The Evolution of Woolf's Feminist-Pacifism in Three Guineas.

Three Guineas: Conception and contextsThree Guineas: Composition and pre-texts; The Scrapbooks; The Drafts; The political power of indifference from The Years to Three Guineas; Conclusion; 4 Writing Art in Times of Chaos in Between the Acts; The textual and contextual history of Between the Acts; Debating the role of art in times of chaos; Art's social role in Between the Acts; Conclusion; 5 Conclusion: Newness and Lateness in Woolf's Last Works; Woolf and late modernism; Conclusion; Appendix A Extracts from '1907' in the Holograph of The Years.

Appendix B An Extract from '1910' in the Holograph of The YearsAppendix C An Extract from the Holograph Draft of Three Guineas; Bibliography; Index.

English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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