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Studland Beach and Jacob's Room: Vanessa Bell's and Virginia Woolf's Experiments in Portrait Making 1910-1922

  • Justyna Kostkowska

Date Published:

5 Jan, 2011

Abstract:

This essay examines Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room in terms of post-impressionist influences of Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell. It demonstrates compositional similarities between Bell's painting Studland Beach and Woolf's novel. Both works use formal design to elicit elegiac emotion in the audience. Jacob's Room is Woolf's first novel that exemplifies her attention to design as a vehicle for emotion, the idea to which she had been exposed by Vanessa Bell's and other Post-Impressionist paintings since 1910.

 

January 2011: Justyna Kostkowska is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.  She is the author of Virginia Woolf’s Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926–1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves (Mellen 2005). She is working on a new book entitled Ecological Imagination and Narrative in Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith.

 

Publisher's Version

Volume 9, Issue 1 Women Writers
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