
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Jane Goldman(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 14. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-0-521-54756-7 (ISBN)
Description
For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
256 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-54756-7 (9780521547567)
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Person
Jane Goldman is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Dundee.
Content
Preface; 1. Life; 2. Contexts; 3. Works; 4. Criticism; 5. Guide to further reading.