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- Title
"Everyone chooses their love after their own fashion": The Waves as a Modernist Symposium.
- Authors
Cramer, Patricia Morgne
- Abstract
In A Room of One's Own, when Virginia Woolf urges women writers to expose the "dark spots" in men's psychology, she signals her own intentions for The Waves. In The Waves , Woolf targets men's masculinity, elite educations, brutalized boyhoods (at public schools), and their too-easy belonging to literary traditions as causes of male writers' truncated creativity. Louis, Bernard, and Neville exhibit the writerly disabilities Woolf associates with virility in Room. They are also linked to T.S. Eliot, Desmond MacCarthy, and Lytton Strachey, and to modernist experimentalism, realism, and homosexual Hellenism, respectively. In The Waves , Woolf differentiates her aesthetics not only from the "materialists"—H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, and Arnold Bennett—but her Georgian "allies" as well—Eliot, MacCarthy, and Strachey prominent among them.
- Subjects
WAVES, The (Book : Woolf); WOOLF, Virginia, 1882-1941; ENGLISH fiction; 20TH century English literature; MASCULINITY in literature; FEMINISM in literature; MODERNISM (Literature); 20TH century (Literary period); STREAM of Consciousness (Literary period); MODERNISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 4, p43
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/jml.2023.a908973