Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the
Wave looks at how Woolf treated "nature" as a deliberate discourse that shaped
her way of thinking about the self and the environment and her strategies for challenging the
imbalances of power in her own culture--all of which remain valuable in the framing of our
discourse about nature today. Bonnie Kime Scott explores Woolf's uses of nature, including her
satire of scientific professionals and amateurs, her parodies of the imperial conquest of land, her
representations of flora and fauna, her application of post-impressionist and modernist modes,
her merging of characters with the environment, and her ventures across the species
barrier.In shedding light on this discourse of Woolf and the natural world, Scott brings to
our attention a critical, neglected, and contested aspect of modernism itself. She relies on
feminist, ecofeminist, and postcolonial theory in the process, drawing also on the relatively recent
field of animal studies. By focusing on multiple registers of Woolf's uses of nature, the
author paves the way for more extended research in modernist practices, natural history, garden and
landscape studies, and lesbian/queer studies.
Copyright:
2012
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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780813932620
Related ISBNs:
9780813932606
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Date of Addition:
05/07/13
Copyrighted By:
the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
