Virginia Woolf and Classical Music

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Persuasive and engrossing from the outset, this much needed, wide-ranging and authoritative work is a substantial contribution to Woolf studies. Invited to attend afresh to her writings, we close Sutton's book retuned to Woolf's complexities and reawakened to her meanings. * David Bradshaw, Oxford University * Sutton's readings of Woolf's writing are fresh and mature, full of new insights and precise contextualization, and capture the pitch of Woolf's writing just right. -- Andrea Zemgulys * English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Volume 58, Number 2 * This fascinating and learned study opens up quite new paths for exploring Virginia Woolf's writing. It also gives a vivid portrait of musical life in the earlier twentieth century and the arguments around nationalism and gender. Dr. Sutton demonstrates the presence of Wagner and of Beethoven in Woolf's formal experiments. * Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge * ...should be acquired as a matter of priority by any academic library wanting to keep its collection of Woolf scholarship up to date. -- JAMES ACHESON * Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 62.2 * Sutton's listening is both attentive and inventive, and brings a new sophistication and subtlety to our understanding of musical-literary relations in modernism. -- Will May, University of Southampton * The Review of English Studies *