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Virginia Woolf and the Literature of the English Renaissance - Hardcover

Fox, Alice

 
9780198129882: Virginia Woolf and the Literature of the English Renaissance

Synopsis

This ambitious and lucid study examines the profound effect the Renaissance had on the work of major critic and novelist Virginia Woolf. Drawing on the full spectrum of Woolf's available letters, diaries, reading-notes, drafts of essays and novels, and feminist polemics, Fox argues that the style and wit of such sixtheenth-century works as Shakespeare's poems and plays, Hakluyt's prose, and the great lyric poetry of the seventeenth century, can be seen in the language, characterization, and structure of Woolf's fiction and criticism.

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About the Author

Died 1988

Review

'Professor Fox does not deviate into psychoanalysis, or into Bloomian enquiry, but her material generates fascinating further questions in these areas. This is a richly rewarding account of the work.' Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading, Review of English Studies, Vol. 43, 5/92 'Fox has performed heroic labours of scholarship' Makiko Minow-Pinkney, Journal of Gender studies, Volume 1 Number 2, November 1991 'an illuminating study which will effect a significant shift in our understanding of Woolf's creative process' Clare Hanson, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, YES, 22, 1992 'a scholarly study of the powerful influence which Renaissance literature and on the novels of Virginia Woolf ... Alice Fox's study deepens our knowledge and appreciation of Virginia Woolf's creative process.' Contemporary Review 'a scholarly study ... Alice Fox's study deepens our knowledge and appreciation of Virginia Woolf's creative process.' Contemporary Review

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