Cuddy-Keane, Melba.

Virginia Woolf, the intellectual, and the public sphere / Melba Cuddy-Keane. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. - x, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

0521828678 (hbk.)

2003043518


Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 --Knowledge and learning.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 --Political and social views.


Books and reading--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Education--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.


Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.

PR6045.O72 / Z57885 2003

823/.912