Virginia Woolf and the ethics of intimacy
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Virginia Woolf and the ethics of intimacy
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-227) and index
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Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Hoegberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Hoegberg's readings of Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, intimacy is revealed to inhere not just in close relations with the ones we know and love, but primarily within those unsettling encounters which suspend our comfortable sense of ourselves as separate from others and the world around us. Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy locates this radical notion of intimacy at the heart of Woolf's introspective, modernist poetics as well as her ethical and political resistance to violence, aggressive nationalism and fascism. Engaging contemporary theory - particularly the more recent works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - it reads Woolf as a writer and ethical thinker whose vital contribution to the modernist scene of inter-war Britain is strikingly relevant to critical debates around intimacy, affect, violence and vulnerability in our own time.
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Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy
1. Jacob's Room: Modernist Melancholia and the Eclipse of Primal Intimacy
2. "An inner meaning almost expressed": Introspection as Revolt in Mrs Dalloway
3. Post-Impressionist Intimacy and the Visual Ethics of To the Lighthouse
4. Chalk Marks: Violence and Vulnerability in The Waves
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