The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism - Hardcover

Banfield, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521773474 ISBN 13: 9780521773478

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This study is a major reappraisal of Virginia Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time. Through extensive archival research, Ann Banfield offers the first full analysis of Woolf's engagement with the theories of a remarkable trinity of thinkers: G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and Roger Fry.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Banfield is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Review:

"Ann Banfield has written a book of great size in every respect. Large in ambition, vast in research, commanding in its control of many difficult texts and many formidable arguments, it will become a major resource not only for Woolf scholarship, but for all those interested in Modernist studies. This book is a major achievement." Michael Levenson

"The range and depth of Banfield's knowledge is never in doubt; neither is her commitment to modernist thought." Albion

"Banfield's book is without question a stunning achievement, a massive, well-researched compendium of analytic philosophy, modernist aesthetics, and Woolf scholarship." Philosophy and Literature

"[The Phantom Table's] importance extends beyond its historical account of Woolf's aesthetics, for in tracing the dance of ideas among Woolf, Russell and Fry, Banfield offers a fresh persepctive on both the problem of the subject in twentieth-century thought and art and Bloomsbury's philosophical and creative solutions..." Women's Review of Books

"The Phantom Table deserves to be read, to be argued with, to be integrated into that mosaic of critical discussion that is the dynamic field of Woolf studies, and, more largely, of modernist studies." Woolf Studies Annual

"A poetic book....opens new directions in the consideration of Woolf as a serious philosophical novelist." Virginia Woolf Miscellany

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521773474
• ISBN 13: 9780521773478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452