This book explores the relationship between aesthetic productivity and artists' degree of involvement in social and sexual life as depicted in Virginia Woolf's novels. Ann Ronchetti locates the sources of Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with the artist's relationship to society in her family heritage, her exposure to Walter Pater and the aesthetic movement, and the philosophical and aesthetic interests of the Bloomsbury group.
Author(s): Ann Ronchetti
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 232
Front cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Permissions......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
CHAPTER ONE. Introduction......Page 16
CHAPTER TWO. The Voyage Out......Page 32
CHAPTER THREE. Night and Day......Page 44
CHAPTER FOUR. Jacob's Room......Page 56
CHAPTER FIVE. Mrs. Dalloway......Page 64
CHAPTER SIX. To the Lighthouse......Page 76
CHAPTER SEVEN: Orlando......Page 96
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Waves......Page 106
CHAPTER NINE. The Years......Page 122
CHAPTER TEN. Between the Acts......Page 134
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conclusion......Page 146
Notes......Page 156
Bibliography......Page 208
Index......Page 216
Back cover......Page 233
