The Artist-Figure - Society and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf's Novels

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.

List of contents

Introduction Chapter One: The Voyage Out Chapter Two: Night and Day Chapter Three: Jacob's Room Chapter Four: To the Lighthouse Chapter Five: Orlando Chapter Six: The Waves Chapter Seven: The Years Chapter Eight: Between the Acts Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Ann Ronchetti received her Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a bibliographer for English, French, and Italian languages and literatures and the performing arts at the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Ronchetti, Ronchetti Ann
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2004
• EAN: 9780415970327
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97032-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Auth; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form