TY - BOOK AU - Cuddy-Keane,Melba TI - Virginia Woolf, the intellectual, and the public sphere SN - 0521828678 (hbk.) AV - PR6045.O72 Z57885 2003 U1 - 823/.912 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Woolf, Virginia, KW - Books and reading KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Education KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Intellectual life N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -