Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader? - Softcover

Dusinberre, Juliet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333681045 ISBN 13: 9780333681046

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Synopsis

Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

About this title

About the Author

Juliet Dusinberre is the author of Shakespeare and the Nature of Women and Alice to the Lighthouse. She is a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge

Review

“...Dusinberre's text has much to offer Woolf scholars. The best parts of Dusinberre's text are her richly contextualized readings of her selected “outsiders”; placing them in the context of other writers—both contemporaneous and distant—as well as the social, political, and cultural events which impinge upon them, she provides a detailed exploration of Woolf's multi-leveled connections to these writers. Dusinberre's readings move us around, as Montaigne advocates, taking us in many new directions, and encouraging us to trespass on new territory.”—Woolf Studies Annual

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333681045
• ISBN 13: 9780333681046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 281