Virginia Woolf Icon

This is a book about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear, the cultural icon so rich in meanings that it has been used to market everything from the New York Review of Books to Bass Ale. Brenda Silver analyzes Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race, and fashion.From Virginia Woolf's 1937 appearance on the cover of Time magazine to her current roles in theater, film, and television, Silver traces the often contradictory representations and the responses they provoke, highlighting the recurring motifs that associate Virginia Woolf with fear.

Virginia Woolf Icon features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Popular culture, Gender studies: women and girls

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Virginia Woolf Icon was written by Brenda R Silver and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press

Virginia Woolf Icon has 353 pages

Yes it is part of Women in Culture and Society series