Browsing by Author "Wood, Alice"
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The development of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism, 1930-1941
Wood, Alice (Thesis or dissertation / Doctoral / PhD)This thesis explores the development of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism. While contemporary scholars commonly observe that Woolf shifted her intellectual focus from modernist fiction to cultural criticism in the ... -
Facing Life as We Have Known It: Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild.
Wood, Alice (Article)This article explores Leonard and Virginia Woolf's early interactions with the Women's Co-operative Guild and supplies a contextualised analysis of Virginia Woolf's preface to Life as We Have Known It (1931). Written to ... -
'Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home'
Wood, Alice (Book chapter)This article interrogates the framing of women as citizens through domestic work in two interwar women's magazines. Directed towards an aspirational lower-middle-class female audience, George Newnes's Modern Home identified ... -
Made to Measure: Virginia Woolf in Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Wood, Alice (Article)Virginia Woolf welcomed not only the economic rewards of her 37-year career as book reviewer and critic but also the multiple opportunities journalism presented for traversing and challenging the cultural boundaries of ... -
Modernism, Exclusivity, and the Sophisticated Public of Harper's Bazaar (UK)
Wood, Alice (Article)This article explores the reciprocal relationship between modernism and Harper’s Bazaar (UK) during 1929-35. In its early years this commercial fashion magazine exploited modernism’s perceived exclusivity and highbrow ... -
'A New Mimesis': Approaches to Representation in the Poetry of the New York School
Wood, Alice (Article)Although the New York School of Poets opposed reception as a unified artistic movement, study of a selection of their early poetry illustrates that John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler all shared a ... -
Review of Clara Jones, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (Edinburgh UP, 2015)
Wood, Alice (Article)Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist makes an important and exciting contribution to the ongoing critical reassessment of the politics of a writer frequently portrayed as apolitical in her lifetime and for several decades ... -
Virginia Woolf's "Two Women", or, "The Wrong Way of Reading"
Wood, Alice (Book chapter)This paper reads Virginia Woolf’s ‘Two Women,’ a 1927 review of two biographical works, in relation to A Room of One’s Own (1928) and ‘The Wrong Way of Reading,’ a short biographical review from 1920. Woolf’s sustained ... -
Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of The Years, Three Guineas and Between the Acts
Wood, Alice (Book)After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links ...