Virginia Woolf and Fascism

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.

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Virginia Woolf at the Crossroads of Feminism, Fascism, and Art: An Introduction; M. M. Pawlowski PART I: FASCISM, HISTORY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas ; Q. Bell Three Guineas , Fascism, and the Construction of Gender; M. L. Gättens Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis on Art, Gender, and Politics; M. M. Pawlowski Freudian Seduction and the Fallacies of Dictatorship; V. Neverow PART II: PRELUDES TO WAR: POLITICS IN THE NOVELS, AESTHETICS IN THE NONFICTION Acts of Artistic Vision, Acts of Aggression: Art and Abyssinia in Virginia Woolf's Fascist Italy; L. C. Harris 'Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind': Fascism and Chastity in Mrs. Dalloway; L. Low Of Oceans and Opposition: The Waves , Mosley and the New Party; J. Berman Monstrous Conjugations: The Anti-Fascist Writings of Virginia and Leonard Woolf; N. Rosenfeld PART III: VOICES AGAINST TYRANNY: WOOLF AMONG OTHER WRITERS 'Finding new words and creating new methods': Three Guineas and The Handmaid's Tale; M. Joannou Seduced by Fascism: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, the Woman Who Did Not Write Three Guineas; L. Giachero External Fascism and Its 'Home Haunts' in the Leavises' Attacks on Bloomsbury and Woolf'; M. A. Travis Dystopian Modernism vs; Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf, and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism; L. Stec A Selected Bibliography on Virginia Woolf, Fascism, and Gender Index