Virginia Woolf, the intellectual, and the public sphere / Melba Cuddy-Keane.
Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: x, 237 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0521828678 (hbk.)
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge and learning
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views
- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- 823/.912 21
- PR6045.O72 Z57885 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-230) and index.
Introduction: a wider sphere. PART I. Cultural contexts: 1. Democratic highbrow: Woolf and the classless intellectual -- 2. Woolf, English studies, and the making of the (new) Common Reader. PART II. Critical practise: 3. Woolf and the theory and pedagogy of reading -- Postscript: intellectual work today.
Publisher description: Melba Cuddy-Keane relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of "highbrow" culture; the methods of instruction in universities and adult education; and the importance of an educated public for the realization of democratic goals. Combining a wealth of historical detail with a penetrating analysis of Woolf's essays, this study will alter our views of Woolf, modernism, and intellectual endeavor.