Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

Taylor Suppé, Charlotte

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399520928
• DDC分類 823.912

Full Description

Motherhood is a recurrent theme in Virginia Woolf's writing yet Woolf scholarship has often overlooked this dynamic subject. Exploring how Woolf engaged with themes of motherhood as a socially and politically motivated writer and a woman, this book grounds her work in the maternal discourses of her time. By reading Woolf's texts in dialogue with contemporary writing, socio-political events and medical and scientific advances, Virginia Woolf and Motherhood establishes the significance of maternity across Woolf's oeuvre and exposes how public and personal matters of motherhood informed the links she drew between maternity, femininity, self-worth and artistry. With novel analysis of Woolf's writing on war, eugenics, food and psychoanalysis, Charlotte Taylor Suppé demonstrates the substantive influence maternal discourses had on shaping Woolf's feminism, political beliefs and creative practices.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Motherhood and the Great War
2. Motherhood and Eugenics
3. Motherhood and Food
4. Motherhood and Psychoanalysis
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index