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A background of Woolf's early life and her continued social and historical consciousness throughout her life.
Eide, Marian. "The Stigma of Nation': Feminist Just War, Privilege, and Responsibility." Hypatia; Spring, 2008, Vol. 23 Issue 2. 48-60.
Author draws her thesis from the title of one of Woolf's works, and discusses the feminist position on war, exclusion, and "just war."
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
An excellent discussion of Woolf and her views on war, including her interaction with groups opposing and writing about war and society.
Hollander, Rachel. "Novel Ethics: Alterity and Form in 'Jacob's Room'." Twentieth Century Literature; Spring, 2007, Vol. 53 Issue 1. 40-66.
Discusses Woolf's novel in terms of "gender, urbanism, and war" while reflecting on the differences between modernist and Victorian writings.
Kramer, Jerome V. "The Woolf Pack: Michael Cunningham's the Hours Put the Spotlight on One Virginia Woolf Novel, but Don't Overlook the Others." Book May-June, 2003: 26+.
Discusses the remake of the book "The Hours,"...
"Beyond the Politics of Emancipation: Utopianism and Radical (Im)possibilities in Virginia Woolf." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; July, 2005, Vol. 16 Issue 3. 333-357.
Comments on Woolf's political thought, including the "politics of transformation; Pessimism and disillusionment of Woolf with the aftermath of the World War I." A good insight into Woolf's state of mind about war at the time.
MacKay, Marina. "Putting the House in Order: Virginia Woolf and Blitz Modernism." Modern Language Quarterly; June, 2005, Vol. 66 Issue 2. 227-252.
Author creates a long discussion on the war on new social order after World War I in Great Britain. Includes the impact of Woolf's essay, "Three Guineas," written in 1938, regarding narrative and social thinking. Another good resource for the Second World War's influence on Woolf and her writings.
Mackay, Marina. "The Lunacy of Men, the Idiocy of Women: Woolf, West, and War." NWSA Journal; Fall, 2003, Vol. 15 Issue 3. 124-144.
Compares Woolf's work on war with Rebecca West, giving another glimpse into feminist views of war and writing.
Author creates a long discussion on the war on new social order after World War I in Great Britain. Includes the impact of Woolf's essay, "Three Guineas," written in 1938, regarding narrative and social thinking. Another good resource for the Second World War's influence on Woolf and her writings.
Mackay, Marina. "The Lunacy of Men, the Idiocy of Women: Woolf, West, and War." NWSA Journal; Fall, 2003, Vol. 15 Issue 3. 124-144.
Compares Woolf's work on war with Rebecca West, giving another glimpse into feminist views of war and writing.
It would take an entire paper just to explicate all of the roles that women play today and how society has changed as a result. The point is that it has changed and that women play a much different role in literature today than they did even just a century ago during Woolf's time. Woolf saw just a glimpse into the social turn that has led to the present
Virginia Woolf and Her Works as Mediums of Feminism Virginia Woolf was among the rare writers who have put their talents and ideologies into writings, particularly as a patron of equality to women. Considered as one of the founders of feminism, there were quite a number of literary works that show Woolf's passion for promoting feminism. Some of this includes the following literary masterpieces. To the Lighthouse A Room on One's Own (1929) Three
Ultimately, Mrs. Dalloway's opinion of herself is highest when she is giving parties. Woolf writes, "Every time she gave a party she had this feeling of being something not herself, and that every one was unreal in one way; much more real in another" (Woolf 171). She knows she has a gift for bringing people together, and it is this gift that makes her life worthwhile. It is odd, because
When conducting an ideological critique, the researcher must be concerned with the way ideology is evidenced (or repressed) in the artifact, and a useful concept for identifying these "traces of ideology" is the notion of the ideograph, or the "political language which manifests ideology," which, according to Michael McGee, is "characterized by slogans" (Foss 248, McGee 5). McGee argues "that ideology in practice is a political language, preserved in
Women and Gender Studies Of all the technologies and cultural phenomena human beings have created, language, and particularly writing, is arguably the most powerful, because it is the means by which all human experience is expressed and ordered. As such, controlling who is allowed to write, and in a modern context, be published, is one of the most effective means of controlling society. This fact was painfully clear to women writers
It is Edna who achieves both the awakening of the title, the awareness of how the social traditions imposed on her are stifling her and preventing her from expressing herself as she would wish, and also fails in that she cannot overcome these traditions and so chooses suicide rather than continue under such a repressive system. Chopin implies that there is a danger in awakening, in understanding the nature of