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Virginia Woolf´s Novels and the Literary Past
Jane De Gay
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Description for Virginia Woolf´s Novels and the Literary Past
Hardback. This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
The first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage. Key ... Read more
The first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage. Key ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748623495
SKU
V9780748623495
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About Jane De Gay
Jane de Gay is Senior Lecturer in English and Director of the MA in Victorian Studies at Trinity and All Saints' College, Leeds. Her articles on Woolf have appeared in Woolf Studies Annual, Critical Survey, Short Story Criticism and proceedings of the international Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, among other places.
Reviews for Virginia Woolf´s Novels and the Literary Past
A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past! The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism. An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's ... Read more