Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf

Informationen zum Autor KATHRYN SIMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK, teaching courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and film. Her research interests focus on women's modernist writing and she has published on Woolf, H.D. and Katherine Mansfield. Klappentext This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics. Zusammenfassung This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations Introduction The Business of Writing: Economies in Woolf's Essays Queering the Market: 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street', Mrs Dalloway and 'The Hours' The Gift of Vision: To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Between the Acts Moments of Giving: Generosity and Desire in Woolf's Short Fictions Conclusion Bibliography Index

List of contents

List of abbreviations Introduction The Business of Writing: Economies in Woolf's Essays Queering the Market: 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street', Mrs Dalloway and 'The Hours' The Gift of Vision: To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Between the Acts Moments of Giving: Generosity and Desire in Woolf's Short Fictions Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: K Simpson, K. Simpson, Kathryn Simpson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2008
• EAN: 9781403997067
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-9706-7
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, aesthetics;fiction;Woolf