scholarly journals Classical in/stabilities: Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and the Great War

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-457
Author(s):  
J H D Scourfield
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
Ford Madox Ford ◽  
The Great War

Imbalances: Mass Death and the Economy of ‘Sacrifice’ in the Great War

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Great War ◽  
Ford Madox Ford ◽  
Major Point ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Official Record ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Point Of Reference

This essay engages the values, attitudes, and practices of ‘sacrifice’ in the cultural history and literary and visual representations of the Great War (discussing works by Richard Aldington, David Jones and Ford Madox Ford). It demonstrates how extensively the idea of sacrifice was appealed to in the official record, and it shows how this political construction was responded to, almost always critically and negatively, in a literature of major record. The chief ideas turn around the fact that a sacrificial victim, in order to be effective, needs to be ‘worth’ a good deal; this calculation is profoundly altered in the ongoing, increasingly wholesale character of slaughter in the war. This disenchantment provides a major point of reference for our understanding of the war as a watershed in European and world-cultural history.

Virginia Woolf and the Great War

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Karen Lee Osborne ◽  
Karen L. Levenback
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Virginia Woolf and the Great War

2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 350
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Feito ◽  
Karen L. Levenback
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Virginia Woolf and the Great War. Karen L. Levenback

2002 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-504
Author(s):  
Jeanette McVicker
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Virginia Woolf’s Synesthesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-484
Author(s):  
Holly Earl
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Aesthetic Principle ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Vital Element

This article argues that synesthesia exerted a profound influence on the writing of Virginia Woolf. Examining a wide range of works, it establishes that Woolf not only registered synesthesia as a cultural phenomenon by depicting many synesthetes in her fiction but also, from the outset of her writing life, adopted synesthesia as an aesthetic principle. It helped her critique the atomization of the human senses under the technological conditions of modernity, but also to condemn both the militarism of the Great War and the rise of totalitarian politics in the late 1930s. Ultimately, however, Woolf’s “synesthetic aesthetic” is as constructive as it is critical—an overlooked but vital element in Woolf’s broader project of representing lived experience as subjective, multifarious, and fundamentally unified.

Florence Melian Stawell and Virginia Woolf: Home-front Experience, The Price of Freedom, and Patriotism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Levenback
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Patriotism Education ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
The Great War

An Australian by birth, Florence Melian Stawell, who was educated as a classicist at both Trinity College (Melbourne) and Newnham College (Cambridge) was a civilian living in London during the Great War. She shared this experience with Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and many of their Bloomsbury friends. But unlike Woolf, whose life during the war has been the subject of some attention (my own Virginia Woolf and the Great War, for example), the home-front experience of Stawell and her literary output, including her anthology of poetry (The Price of Freedom) and her writings on a range of topics (patriotism, education, and the League of Nations among them), has been overlooked. This paper suggests that we may well find the Great War as a way into the life and work of this underappreciated woman, a contemporary of Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf and the Great War (review)

2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 540-542
Author(s):  
Mark W. Van Wienen
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Frayn
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Great War ◽  
Ford Madox Ford ◽  
Review Journal ◽  
Northern France ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Unreliable Narration ◽  
Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford was a British author of German ancestry (he was born Ford Hermann Hueffer), a novelist, poet, editor, critic, biographer, and memoirist. Under his editorship (1908/9) the English Review journal was an influential organ of early modernism, although a commercial failure. He is perhaps best known for The Good Soldier (1915), a classic tale of unreliable narration and psychological intrigue. Ford served in the Great War, and his masterful Parade’s End tetralogy (1924–8) draws on this experience as he develops the modernist techniques and metaphors used in The Good Soldier to rethink the conflict. Ford continued to write novels, literary criticism and history, travel literature, and memoirs until the end of his life. He died in northern France in 1939.

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