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Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Natania Rosenfeld
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Description for Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
Paperback. Focusing on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Leonard, this book illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both partners and carried over into literary modernism itself, in part through the influence of the Woolfs' groundbreaking publishing company, the Hogarth Press. In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Natania Rosenfeld illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity. At the time of the Woolfs' marriage, Leonard was ... Read more
The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both partners and carried over into literary modernism itself, in part through the influence of the Woolfs' groundbreaking publishing company, the Hogarth Press. In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of her husband, Natania Rosenfeld illuminates Leonard's sense of ambivalent social identity and its affinities to Virginia's complex ideas of subjectivity. At the time of the Woolfs' marriage, Leonard was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089607
SKU
V9780691089607
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About Natania Rosenfeld
Natania Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of English at Knox College. Her articles and poetry have appeared in various journals
Reviews for Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
"For all its theoretical knowingness, Outsiders Together is a rather old-fashioned celebration of a long, intimate heterosexual relationship... The strength of Outsiders Together is that it moves beyond the working and emotional relationship of Leonard and Virginia to subtly address larger issues
such as Leonard's Jewishness and Virginia's politics
which have hitherto been treated rather crudely."
Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement "Rosenfeld's study ... Read more
such as Leonard's Jewishness and Virginia's politics
which have hitherto been treated rather crudely."
Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement "Rosenfeld's study ... Read more