Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy

Elsa Högberg

earliest edition we have, 2018 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021

Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental texts, 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 be not just affective connections with loved ones, but primarily those painful encounters which unsettle our knowledge of who we are and the world around us. Virgi...

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Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy edition · 2021 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350237438
Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy edition · 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350022737
Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy edition · 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 288 pages · 9781350022713
Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy edition · 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350022720

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