Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Revolt

This article revisits the claim that Virginia Woolf’s critique of inter-war Britain as a patriarchal, militaristic and patriotic society is conveyed through her critique of the masculine subject. Woolf saw subjective autonomy as the origin of nationalist aggression, and like Julia Kristeva, she imag...

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Main Author: Elsa Högberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2014-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1170