Virginia Woolf icon
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Virginia Woolf icon
（Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson）
University of Chicago Press, 1999
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Volume
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: cloth ISBN 9780226757452
Description
This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the "New York Review of Books" to Bass Ale. Brenda Silver analyzes Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race and fashion. From Virginia Woolf's 1937 appearance on the cover of "Time" magazine to her roles in theatre, film and television, Silver traces the often contradictory representations and the responses they provoke, highlighting the recurring motifs that associate Virginia Woolf with fear. By looking more closely at who is afraid and the contexts in which she is perceived to be frightening, Silver illustrates how Virginia Woolf has become the site of conflicts about cultural boundaries and legitimacy that continue to rage at the end of the 20th century.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Versioning of Virginia Woolf Part 1. Negative Encounters: The "Intellectual" Media Prelude. Anger and Storytelling: Whose Story Counts? Section 1. The Columbia Stories Section 2. The New York Review of Books Section 3. How the Greats Are Fallen Part 2. Starring Virginia Woolf Take 1. Production Notes Take 2. Time: Virginia Woolf Joins the "All-Star Literary Vaudeville" Take 3. A Writer's Diary and the "Real" Virginia Woolf Take 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Virginia Woolf Becomes a Household Name Take 5. Quentin Bell's Biography and Historical Products Inc.: Family Portraits Take 6. Virginia Woolf's Face Take 7. British Graffiti: Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Take 8. Tom & Viv & Virginia & Edith & Ottoline & Vita & Carrington Take 9. Fashion Stills Part 3. Doubled Movements Move 1. The Politics of Adaptation
- Or, the Authentic Virginia Woolf Move 2. The Monstrous Union of Virginia Woolf and Marilyn Monroe Afterword: Virginia Woolf Episodes Notes Index
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780226757469
Description
This text is about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the "New York Review of Books" to Bass Ale. Brenda Silver analyzes Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race and fashion. From Virginia Woolf's 1937 appearance on the cover of "Time" magazine to her roles in theatre, film and television, Silver traces the often contradictory representations and the responses they provoke, highlighting the recurring motifs that associate Virginia Woolf with fear. By looking more closely at who is afraid and the contexts in which she is perceived to be frightening, Silver illustrates how Virginia Woolf has become the site of conflicts about cultural boundaries and legitimacy that continue to rage at the end of the 20th century.
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