The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism, and the Politics of the Visual - Hardcover

Goldman, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521590965 ISBN 13: 9780521590969

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf's work. Focusing on Woolf's engagement with the artistic theories of her time, Goldman traces the feminist implication of her aesthetics by reclaiming for the everyday world of history and politics what seem to be private mystical moments. Goldman analyses Woolf's fascination with the Post-impressionist exhibition of 1920 and the solar eclipse of 1927 by linking her response to a much wider literary and cultural context. She argues that Woolf evolves a kind of 'feminist prismatics' through which she is able to express and develop both the challenge and pessimism of her feminist vision. Lavishly illustrated with colour pictures, this book will appeal not only to scholars working on Woolf, but also to students of modernism, art history, and women's studies.

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Review:

'In this innovative and important book, Jane Goldman argues that for Virginia Woolf, aesthetic concerns (with colour in particular) were inseparable from political and especially feminist concerns. Jane Goldman's book is essential reading not only for readers of Woolf, but also for those interested more generally in modernism and aesthetics.' Suzanne Raitt

Book Description:

Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf's work which focuses on her engagement with the artistic theories of her time. Lavishly illustrated with colour pictures, this book will appeal not only to scholars working on Woolf, but also to students of modernism, art history, and women's studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521590965
• ISBN 13: 9780521590969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256