
Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground
Essays by Gillian Beer
Gillian Beer(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 1. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7486-0814-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer's essays on Virginia Woolf. Widely recognised as a leading authority on Woolf and a sophisticated critic of modernism and fiction, Beer's essays make fascinating reading. Beer demonstrates, through close investigative textual readings, how Woolf's conceptualisations of history and narrative are intimately bound up with her ways of thinking about women, writing and social and sexual relations.
Reviews / Votes
Beer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf. Beer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0814-0 (9780748608140)
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E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Person
Dame Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge
Content
Introduction to "Between the Acts"; introduction to "The Waves"; Virginia Woolf and prehistory; essay on elegy in "To the Lighthouse"; the body of the people in Virginia Woolf; the island and the aeroplane - the case of Virginia Woolf; essay on "Between the Acts", the diaries, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen; essay on Woolf and the work of Arthur Eddington.