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This unique collection of essays, edited by leading Woolf scholar, brings together for the first time a serious consideration of Virginia Woolf's writing within the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to Between the Acts , 1941, for her responses not only to the growing menaces of dictators abroad, but also to mounting evidence of fascist ideology at home in England. The essays present a portrait of Woolf as a woman writer who was politically engaged, and actively protesting against a worldview which aggressively targeted women for oppression. Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Virginia Woolf at the Crossroads of Feminism, Fascism, and Art -- Part I Fascism, History, and the Construction of Gender -- 2 A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas -- 3 Three Guineas, Fascism, and the Construction of Gender -- 4 Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis on Art, Gender, and Politics -- 5 Freudian Seduction and the Fallacies of Dictatorship -- Part II Preludes to War: Politics in the Novels, Aesthetics in the Nonfiction -- 6 Acts of Vision, Acts of Aggression: Art and Abyssinia in Virginia Woolf's Fascist Italy -- 7 'Thou Canst Not Touch the Freedom of My Mind': Fascism and Disruptive Female Consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway -- 8 Of Oceans and Opposition: The Waves, Oswald Mosley, and the New Party -- 9 Monstrous Conjugations: Images of Dictatorship in the Anti-Fascist Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf -- Part III Voices against Tyranny: Woolf among Other Writers -- 10 'Finding New Words and Creating New Methods': Three Guineas and The Handmaid's Tale -- 11 Seduced by Fascism: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, the Woman Who Did Not Write Three Guineas -- 12 Eternal Fascism and its 'Home Haunts' in the Leavises' Attacks on Bloomsbury and Woolf -- 13 Dystopian Modernism vs Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf, and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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