Research Catalog

Title

Religion, secularism, and the spiritual paths of Virginia Woolf / Kristina K. Groover, editor.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Additional Authors

Groover, Kristina K., 1961-

Description

xiii, 214 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Religion, secularism, and the spiritual paths of Virginia Woolf" offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of spirituality in Virginia Woolf's writing, drawing on theology, psychology, geography, history, gender, and sexuality studies, and other critical fields. The essays in this collection interrogate conventional approaches to the spiritual, and to Woolf's work, while contributing to a larger critical reappraisal of modernism, religion, and secularism. While Woolf's atheism and her sharp criticism of religion have become critical commonplaces, her sometimes withering critique of religion conflicts with what might well be called a religious sensibility in her work. The essays collected here take up a challenge posed by Woolf herself: how to understand her persistent use of religious language, her reprsentation of deeply mysterious human experiences, and her recurrent questions about life's meaning in light of her disparaging attitude toward religion. These essays argue that Woolf's writing reframes and reclaims the spiritual in alternate forms; she strives to find new language for those numinous experiences that remain after the death of God has been pronounced.

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• Religion and literature > England > 20th century
• Spirituality in literature > 20th century
• Religion
• 18.05 English literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction - desired lines : the spiritual paths of Virginia Woolf / Kristina K. Groover -- "Some restless searcher in me" : Virginia Woolf and contemporary mysticism / Jane de Gay -- A God "in process of change" : Woolfian theology and Mrs. Dalloway / Kristina K. Groover -- "The thing is in itself enough" : Virginia Woolf's sacred everyday / Lorraine Sim -- Virginia Woolf reads "Dover beach" : romance and the Victorian crisis of faith in "To the lighthouse" / Amy C. Smith -- Woolf and Hopkins on the revelatory particular / Dwight Lindley -- "Perpetual departure" : sacred space and urban pilgrimage in Woolf's essays -- Quaker mysticism and Virginia Woolf's "To the lighthouse" / Emily Griesinger -- Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" and Dostoevsky : the sacred space of the soul / Rita Dirks -- "She heard the first words" : Lesbian subjectivity and prophetic discourse in Virginia Woolf's "The waves" and "Between the acts" / Margaret Sullivan -- Sensibility, parochiality, spirituality : toward a critical method and ethnic of response in Woolf, Spivak, and Mahmood / Benjamin D. Hagen.

Call Number

JFD 20-3321

ISBN

• 9783030325671
• 3030325679
• 97830303256 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1135057875

Title

Religion, secularism, and the spiritual paths of Virginia Woolf / Kristina K. Groover, editor.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Groover, Kristina K., 1961- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-3321