{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-elsa-hgberg-9781350237438","title":"Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy","description":"Revisiting Virginia Woolf's most experimental novels, Elsa Hberg explores how Woolf's writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Hberg's readings of \u003ci\u003eJacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e, intimacy is revealed to inhere not just in close relations with the ones we know and love, but primarily within those unsettling encounters which suspend our comfortable sense of ourselves as separate from others and the world around us. \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e locates this radical\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003enotion of intimacy at the heart of Woolf's\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eintrospective, modernist poetics as well as her ethical and political resistance to violence, aggressive nationalism and fascism. Engaging contemporary theory - particularly the more recent works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva - it reads Woolf as a writer and ethical thinker whose vital contribution to the modernist scene of inter-war Britain is strikingly\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003erelevant to critical debates\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003earound intimacy, affect, violence and vulnerability in our own time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elsa Hberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350237434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350237438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Elsa Hberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943684800767,"sku":"9781350237438","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_552db361-66b5-4874-89a7-59ab4e3f0acf.jpg?v=1681499482","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/virginia-woolf-and-the-ethics-elsa-hgberg-9781350237438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}