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.

Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere

Literature & Fiction

Cuddy-Keane, Melba

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Guided by the historical semantics developed in Raymond Williams' pioneering study of cultural vocabulary, Modernism: Keywords presents a series of short entries on words used with frequency and urgency in “written modernism,” tracking cultural and literary debates and transformative moments of change. Short-listed for The Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection <ul>
<li>Highlights and exposes the salient controversies and changing cultural thought at the heart of modernism</li> <li>Goes beyond constructions of “plural modernisms” to reveal all modernist writing as overlapping and interactive in a simultaneous and interlocking mix</li> <li>Draws from a vast compilation of more than a thousand sources, ranging from vernacular prose to experimental literary forms</li> <li>Spans the “long” modernist period, from its incipient beginnings c.1880 to its post-WWII aftermath</li> <li>Approaches English written modernism in its own terms, tempering explanations of modernism often derived from European poets and painters</li> <li>Models research techniques based on digital databases and collaborative work in the humanities</li> </ul>

Modernism: Keywords (Keywords in Literature and Culture (KILC).)

Hammond, Adam

Peat, Alexandra

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

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