TY - GEN T1 - Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity T2 - Gender and culture. A1 - Froula, Christine, 1950- LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm60896964 AB - Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe ""might really be on the brink of becoming civilized, "" as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinishe OP - 428 CN - PR6045.O72 Z6435 2005eb SN - 0231508786 SN - 9780231508780 SN - 9780231134446 SN - 0231134444 KW - Woolf, Virginia, : 1882-1941 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Woolf, Virginia, : 1882-1941 KW - Bloomsbury group KW - Woolf, Virginia. KW - Bloomsbury (London, England) : Intellectual life : 20th century. KW - World War, 1914-1918 : England : London : Literature and the war. KW - Women and literature : England : London : History : 20th century. KW - Experimental fiction, English : History and criticism. KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) : England : London. KW - Modernism (Literature) : England : London. KW - Civilization, Modern, in literature. KW - Bloomsbury group. KW - Femmes et littérature : Angleterre : Londres : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) : Angleterre : Londres. KW - Groupe de Bloomsbury. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Civilization, Modern, in literature KW - Experimental fiction, English KW - Intellectual life KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - War and literature KW - Women and literature KW - England : London KW - England : London : Bloomsbury KW - Avantgardeliteratur KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -