TY - BOOK AU - Peach,Linden TI - Virginia Woolf T2 - Critical issues series SN - 9780333687314 AV - PR6045.O72 Z8575 1999 U1 - 823.912 22 PY - 2000/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Macmillan KW - Politics and literature KW - Literature and society N1 - Published in the US by St Martin's Press, New York; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements Introduction Contexts Pent-up Voices: The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919) and 'Kew Gardens' (1919) Pre-war England: Jacob's Room (1922) 'National Conservatism' and 'Conservative Nationalism': Mrs Dalloway (1925) Womanhood and Discourse: To the Lighthouse (1927) History and Historiography: Orlando (1928) and The Waves (1931) Private and Public Spaces: The Years (1937) The Last Years: 'The Shooting Party' (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) Conclusion Notes Index; TOC; English N2 - The cryptographic nature of Virginia Woolf's writings about politics and history are addressed here. Linden Peach argues that Woolf is a sophisticated political thinker, engaged by the coded nature of social "reality" and interrogating the cryptic meanings within public discourse. UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/virginia-woolf/oclc/49984428&referer=brief_results ER -