Reflections - Virginia Woolf and Her Quaker Aunt, Caroline Stephen

This iconoclastic study compares the lives and works of Virginia Woolf and her Quaker aunt, Caroline Stephen, to suggest that Woolf was more deeply influenced by a sense of mysticism than she was by her father's atheism. Anyone interested in Woolf, Quaker studies, British Modernism, Christianity, and women's studies would find much here to challenge assumptions.

Sommario

Contents: Introduction - Patriarchy - Faith and God - Evil - Service - Women's Roles - Silence and Speaking - Dress - Light - Works Cited.

Info autore

Kathleen A. Heininge received her Master¿s Degree from California State University East Bay and her Doctorate from University of California at Davis, both in English literature. She is presently Professor of English at George Fox University in Oregon. Her previous publications include her book, Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes (Lang, 2009).

Riassunto

This iconoclastic study compares the lives and works of Virginia Woolf and her Quaker aunt, Caroline Stephen, to suggest that Woolf was more deeply influenced by a sense of mysticism than she was by her father's atheism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathleen Heininge, Kathleen A. Heininge, Heininge Kathleen
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781433133299
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-3329-9
• Pagine: 186
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 15 mm x 229 mm
• Peso: 400 g
• Serie: Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature; Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Service, Literature, English, Virginia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Woolf, RELIGION / Theology, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Stephen, Caroline, Reflections, EVIL, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Karen, Gender studies: women, Philosophy of religion, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Literary studies: from c 2000, aunt, patriarchy, Quaker, Kathleen, faith and god, british modernism, Radell, Heininge, Marguerite