Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography, and Cinema

by Maggie Humm

Book Overview

This volume presents an original study of the visual and literary aesthetics of influential modernist women writers, in particular Virginia Woolf, HD (Hilda Doolittle), and Dorothy Richardson. Maggie Humm focuses on the neglected (often intimate) domestic photographs of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; on Woolf's essay "The Cinema" in the context of cinema journalism by other modernists; and on the influence of photography on Woolf's Three Guineas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813532663
• ISBN13: 9780813532660
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.7"