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Outsiders together : Virginia and Leonard Woolf

Author: Natania Rosenfeld
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 a penniless ex-colonial administrator, a fervent anti-imperialist, a committed socialist, a budding novelist, and an  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Virginia Woolf; Leonard Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Leonard Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Leonard Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Leonard Woolf; Leonard Woolf, Publizist.; Virginia Woolf
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Natania Rosenfeld
ISBN: 0691058849 9780691058849 0691089604 9780691089607
OCLC Number: 42716990
Description: xii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Border Cases --
Strange Crossings --
Incongruities; or, The Politics of Character --
Links into Fences --
Translations --
Monstrous Conjugations.
Responsibility: Natania Rosenfeld.
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"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 a penniless ex-colonial administrator, a fervent anti-imperialist, a committed socialist, a budding novelist, and an assimilated Jew who vacillated between fierce pride in his ethnicity and repudiation of it. Virginia was an "intellectual aristocrat," socially privileged by her class and family background but hobbled through gender. Leonard helped Virginia elucidate her own prejudices and elitism, and his political engagements intensified her identification with outsiders in British society." "Rosenfeld discovers an aesthetic of intersubjectivity constantly at work in Virginia Woolf's prose, links this aesthetic to the intermeshed literary lives of the Woolfs, and connects both these sites of dialogue to the larger sociopolitical debates - about imperialism, capitalism, women, sexuality, international relations, and, finally, fascism - of their historical place and time."--Jacket.

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