Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-230) and index.
Contents
A wider sphere -- Part one: Cultural contexts -- Democratic highbrow: Woolf and the classless intellectual -- Woolf, English studies, and the making of the (new) common reader -- Part two: Critical practice -- 3. Woolf and the theory and pedagogy of reading -- Intellectual work today.
Summary
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of 'highbrow' culture, the methods of instruction in universities and adult education, and the importance of an educated public for the realization of democratic goals.