Melba Cuddy-Keane

Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of 'highbrow' culture, the methods of instruction in universities and adult education, and the importance of an educated public for the realization of democratic goals. By focusing on Woolf's theories and practice of reading, Melba Cuddy-Keane refutes assumptions about Woolf's modernist elitism, revealing instead a writer who was pedagogically oriented, publicly engaged and committed to the ideal of classless intellectuals working together in reciprocal exchange. Woolf emerges as a stimulating theorist of the unconscious, of dialogic reading, of historicist criticism and of value judgments, while her theoretically informed but accessible prose challenges us to reflect on academic writing today. Combining a wealth of historical detail with a penetrating analysis of Woolf's essays, this 2003 study will alter our views of Woolf, of modernism and of intellectual work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511056512
• Artikelnr.: 38188505

Autorenporträt

Melba Cuddy-Keane is Associate Professor of English and a Northrop Frye Scholar at the University of Toronto. She has written widely on Virginia Woolf and literary criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: a wider sphere
Part I. Cultural Contexts: 1. Democratic highbrow: Woolf and the classless intellectual
2. Woolf, English studies and the making of the (new) common reader
Part II. Critical Practice: 3. Woolf and the theory and pedagogy of reading
Postscript: intellectual work today
Notes
Bibliography
Index.