Virginia Woolf (27 page)
Authors: Ruth Gruber
dissertation published by Tauchnitz Press,
22-25
early career,
22-23
I Went to the Soviet Arctic
,
8
media coverage,
20-22
meets Virginia Woolf,
1-3
writes dissertation on Woolf,
13-15
defends thesis,
16-17
H
Hall, Radclyffe,
The Well of Loneliness
,
153
Halls, Catherine,
31
Hamburg-Amerika cruise line,
20
Hamill and Barker (manuscript dealers),
166
Herz family,
28-29
History of Orlando Furioso
(Greene),
78
hope, and nihilism,
117-120
The Hours
(film),
2
I
I Went to the Soviet Arctic
(Gruber),
8
identity, struggle for,
125
illusions and dreams,
105
Institute of International Education (IIE),
11
integrity, concept of,
63
,
64-65
compromise of,
76
vs. egotism,
65
intuition vs. rationalism,
109-111
Israel,
8
J
Jacob’s Room
(Woolf),
88
,
97-103
,
120
,
141
,
144-145
Jane Eyre
(Bronte),
67
Jewish refugees,
8-9
,
20
,
22
,
28
,
163
,
168
Jonas, Gerald,
168
K
Kenner, Patti,
164
Keynes, John Maynard,
2
Kidman, Nicole,
2
King Richard III
(Shakespeare),
146
Krauss, Leah,
167
L
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(Lawrence),
94
,
151
Le Clerc, Paul,
164
letters,
see
correspondence
Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume Five 1932-1935
,
29-30
Levin, Dan and Forrest,
168
lists, use of,
106
Longitude
(Sobel),
167
Lovell, Aula,
31
Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock
(Eliot),
88
Lyly,
Euphues and his England
,
90
M
male authors, influence of,
88-89
male characters,
153-154
manic depression,
9
,
10
,
34-35
,
35-36
,
168
Mann, Thomas,
9
Mansfield, Katherine,
63-64
mathematics,
130
meaning, search for,
134-137
menial illness,
9
,
10
,
34-35
,
35-36
,
168
Milton, John.
87
mortality,
112-113
,
114-115
,
116-117
,
121-122
,
137
Mother, Great, representations of,
122
,
154-155
,
156
mother, spiritual, search for,
63-64
,
66-67
,
156
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
,
82
,
92
,
143
Mrs. Dalloway
,
87
,
103-113
,
139
,
150-154
music, influence of,
97-98
,
103-105
,
120-121
and mathematics,
130
My Most Favorite Dessert restaurant (Schechter),
164
N
Naiman, Robert,
168
names, of characters,
85
nature, in literary imagery,
71
and struggle for order,
134-137
Nazi Germany,
3-5
,
7
,
8
,
15-16
,
19
,
22
New Jersey Federation of Women’sClubs,
22
New York Evening Post
,
21-22
New York Herald Tribune
,
8
,
22-23
New York Public Library,
25
,
29-30
,
164
New York Times Book Review
,
168
Nicolson, Harold,
To the New Spirit of Literature
,
117
Night and Day
,
78
,
86
,
96
,
127
,
143
comparison with
The Voyage Out
,
68-76
nihilism, and hope,
117-120
O
objectivity, and creativity,
65-66
Oppermanns, The
(Feuchtwanger),
9
order, imposing over nature,
134-137
originality vs. tradition,
67
,
96-98
Orlando
(Woolf),
14-15
,
62
,
77-83
,
87
,
89
,
90
,
90-91
,
94-95
,
96
,
145
,
146-147
gender in,
93
,
94
,
145-146
,
147-148
time in,
113-114
P
painting, significance of,
122-123
passivity vs. activity,
107-108
Pearl Harbor,
9
Peretz, David,
168
place, in the novel,
111-112
,
142-144
Plato,
146
Poe, Edgar Alan,
Ulalume
,
85
polarity, law of,
124-139
political activism, of women,
155-156
,
157-158
Pope, Alexander,
91-92
Pride and Prejudice
(Austen),
155-156
Prokosch, Ernst,
10-11
Pseudoxia Epidemica
(Browne),
146
“pure have yer”,
30-32
R
realism vs. emotionalism,
106
reconciliation with romanticism,
82-83
refugees
Ethiopian,
168
Reid, Ogden and Helen Rogers,
8
Relatitätstheorie
(Einstein),
114-115
Ribakove-Gordon, Barbara,
167-168
vs. classicism,
125-129
flaws of,
128-129
reconciliation with realism,
82—83
satire of,
80-81
room, as setting,
142-144
A Room of One’s Own
,
14
,
63
,
66-67
,
87
,
89
,
94
,
139-140
,
142-143
,
145
,
157
S
Schechter, Doris,
163
My Most Favorite Dessert,
164
Schuster, Max,
8
Seaman, Barbara,
168
setting, indoor,
142-144
sexual activity, depiction of,
144-145
sexism,
61
,
64
.
see also
feminism
room, as refuge from,
142-143
and social values,
140
sexuality,
144-152
as fluid concept,
93
,
94
,
145-146
King Richard III
,
146
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
,
88
Simon and Schuster Publishers,
8
Sobel, Dava
Galileo’s Daughter
,
167
Longitude
,
167
Soviet Arctic, Gruber writes about,
8
St. Louis
(ship),
20
Stanley, Deborah F.,
9
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
(Shelley),
88
State University of New York at Syracuse (SUNY),
9
Stavrogin’s Confession
(Dostoevsky),
86
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur,
22
Stephen, Leslie,
92
Stevenson, Robert Louis,
87-88
stream-of-consciousness,
107-108
,
111
subjectivity, and creativity,
66
Szladits, Lola L.,
30
Brothers: The Origins of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library
,
164-165
T
time, in the novel,
112-115
,
116-117
,
125
one day,
130-131
To the Lighthouse
,
90
,
114-123
,
142
,
154
To the New Spirit of Literature
(Nicolson),
117
tolerance, of differing styles,
102
,
124
,
155
tradition vs. originality,
67
,
96-98
Twain, Mark,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
,
114
U
Ulalume
(Poe),
85
Urn Burial
(Browne),
90-91
V
values, social,
140
feminine,
140-143
Voyage Out, The
,
84-85
,
86
,
124
,
132
,
139
comparison with
Night and Day
,
68-76
W
The Waves
,
10
,
17
,
88
,
124-139
,
132
,
140
,
141
,
155
Webb, Ruth,
30
The Well of Loneliness
(Radclyffe Hull),
153
window, as literary device,
143-144
Downhill All the Way
,
34
Woolf, Virginia
anti-Semitism,
35
correspondence,
see
correspondence
diaries,
25-26
,
31
,
32
,
34
and papers,
acquisition of,
165-167
Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume Five 1932-1935
,
29-30
mental illness,
see
mental illness; suicide, of Woolf
works of.
see Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown; A Room of One’s Own; Jacob’s Room; Mrs. Dalloway; Night and Day;
Orlando;
The Common Reader; The Voyage Out; The Waves; The Years; To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William,
87
World War II Europe,
3-5
,
6-7
,
8-9
,
12-16
,
19
Writers Workshop,
168
Y
Yamaguchi, Liesl,
167
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Essay originally published in 1935 as Virginia Woolf: A Study by Verlang von Bernhard Tauchnitz in Leipzig, Germany.
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