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Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Michael Whitworth
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Description for Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Paperback. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its varying critical reception over the last ninety years. As the novel concerns itself with women's place in society, war and madness, it was naturally interpreted differently in the ages of second wave feminism, the Vietnam War and the anti-psychiatry movement. This has, of course, created a rather daunting number of different readings. Michael H. Whitworth contextualizes the most important ... Read more
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its varying critical reception over the last ninety years. As the novel concerns itself with women's place in society, war and madness, it was naturally interpreted differently in the ages of second wave feminism, the Vietnam War and the anti-psychiatry movement. This has, of course, created a rather daunting number of different readings. Michael H. Whitworth contextualizes the most important ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230506428
SKU
V9780230506428
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About Michael Whitworth
Michael Whitworth is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Modernism.
Reviews for Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
'I welcome this thorough and deft overview of the criticism of Mrs. Dalloway-alert to both the foibles and insights of criticism from 1925 to the present moment. Ranging widely among well-known and nearly-forgotten commentaries from around the globe, this short book offers an accessible, authoritative survey. Rich in quotations, Michael Whitworth's study deftly places ninety years of criticism in the ... Read more