The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1929-1932 - The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush, the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's creative genius and showcase her supreme stylistic capability. The far-ranging essays and criticism collected here include ruminations on the romantic and literary lives of William Cowper and Christina Rossetti and an introduction to memoirs by the Women's Cooperative Guild that reveals Woolf's signature feminism. This collection also includes the entirety of The Common Reader: Second Series, the sequel to The Common Reader.

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.Stuart N. Clarke, series editor, has transcribed and edited Virginia Woolf's Orlando: The Original Holograph Draft, was cocompiler with B. J. Kirkpatrick of the fourth edition of A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, and edited Translations from the Russian by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky. He is a founding member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and has edited its journal, the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, since its inception in 1999.

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Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush, the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf’s creative genius and showcase her supreme stylistic capability. The far-ranging essays and criticism collected here include ruminations on the romantic and literary lives of William Cowper and Christina Rossetti and an introduction to memoirs by the Women’s Cooperative Guild that reveals Woolf’s signature feminism. This collection also includes the entirety of The Common Reader: Second Series, the sequel to The Common Reader. 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stuart Clarke, Virginia Woolf
• Con la collaborazione di: Stuart Clarke (Editore), Stuart N. Clarke (Editore)
• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780547385341
• ISBN: 978-0-547-38534-1
• Pagine: 742
• Peso: 732 g
• Serie: Essays of Virginia Woolf; Essays of Virginia Woolf; The Virginia Woolf Library
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary essays, Literary theory, Diaries, letters and journals, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Semiotics / semiology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, literary collection;essays, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM: Modern / 20th Century, literary collection;essays;essays;literary;essay;collection, literary collection;essays;2009;2010;2011