The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf - Softcover

Goldman, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521547563 ISBN 13: 9780521547567

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.

About this title

Book Description

This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, covering the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.

About the Author

Jane Goldman is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Dundee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521547563
• ISBN 13: 9780521547567
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170