Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays

Name: Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In the mid-twentieth century, Virginia Woolf published \u2018Six Articles on London Life\u2019 in Good Housekeeping magazine, a popular magazine where fashion, cookery and house decoration is largely featured. This first book-length study of what Woolf calls \u2018little articles\u2019 proposes to reassess the commissioned essays and read them in a chronological sequence in their original context as well as in the larger context of Woolf\u2019s work. Drawing primarily on literary theory, intermedial studies, periodical studies and philosophy, this volume argues the essays which provided an original guided tour of London are creative and innovative works, combining several art forms while developing a photographic method. Further investigation examines the construct of Woolf\u2019s essays as intermedial and as partaking both of theory and praxis; intermediality is closely connected here with her defense of a democratic ideal, itself grounded in a dialogue with her forebears. Far from .