Religion Around Virginia Woolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion Around Virginia Woolf write by Stephanie Paulsell. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Religion Around Virginia Woolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and debate. From her agnostic parents to her evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf’s personal circle was filled with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian converts. In this book, Stephanie Paulsell considers how the religious milieu that Woolf inhabited shaped her writing in unexpected and innovative ways. Beginning with the religious forms and ideas that Woolf encountered in her family, friendships, travels, and reading, Paulsell explores the religious contexts of Woolf’s life. She shows that Woolf engaged with religion in many ways, by studying, reading, talking and debating, following controversies, and thinking about the relationship between religion and her own work. Paulsell examines the ideas about God that hover around Woolf’s writings and in the minds of her characters. She also considers how Woolf, drawing from religious language and themes in her novels and in her reflections on the practices of reading and writing, created a literature that did, and continues to do, a particular kind of religious work. A thought-provoking contribution to the literature on Woolf and religion, this book highlights Woolf’s relevance to our post-secular age. In addition to fans of Woolf, scholars and general readers interested in religious and literary studies will especially enjoy Paulsell’s well-researched narrative.
Religion Around Virginia Woolf
Religion Around Virginia Woolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion Around Virginia Woolf write by Stephanie Paulsell. This book was released on 2019. Religion Around Virginia Woolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf's life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of community she imagined.
Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf
Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf write by Kristina K. Groover. This book was released on 2019-12-13. Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 representation 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.
Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture
Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture write by Jane de Gay. This book was released on 2019-11-27. Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf's upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf's friends and associates. It shows that Woolf's awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed her feminist critique of society in Three Guineas. The book sheds new light on works including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves by revealing her fascination with the clergy, the Madonna, churches and cathedrals; her interest in the Bible as artefact and literary text; and her wrestling with questions about salvation and the nature of God.
Religion Around Virginia Woolf
Religion Around Virginia Woolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion Around Virginia Woolf write by Stephanie Paulsell. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Religion Around Virginia Woolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and debate. From her agnostic parents to her evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf’s personal circle was filled with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian converts. In this book, Stephanie Paulsell considers how the religious milieu that Woolf inhabited shaped her writing in unexpected and innovative ways. Beginning with the religious forms and ideas that Woolf encountered in her family, friendships, travels, and reading, Paulsell explores the religious contexts of Woolf’s life. She shows that Woolf engaged with religion in many ways, by studying, reading, talking and debating, following controversies, and thinking about the relationship between religion and her own work. Paulsell examines the ideas about God that hover around Woolf’s writings and in the minds of her characters. She also considers how Woolf, drawing from religious language and themes in her novels and in her reflections on the practices of reading and writing, created a literature that did, and continues to do, a particular kind of religious work. A thought-provoking contribution to the literature on Woolf and religion, this book highlights Woolf’s relevance to our post-secular age. In addition to fans of Woolf, scholars and general readers interested in religious and literary studies will especially enjoy Paulsell’s well-researched narrative.
