Screen LibraryThe Cambridge introduction to Virginia Woolf /
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...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK: |
| Publication Dates: |
2008. ©2006 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge introductions to literature
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| Summary: |
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 |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 157 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780521547567 0521547563 9780521838832 0521838835 |
| Index Number: | PR6045 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Call Number: | I561.064/G619 |
| Contents: | Life -- Contexts -- Works -- Criticism -- Guide to further reading. |