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

Dusinberre, Juliet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877455767 ISBN 13: 9780877455769

Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Explores Virginia Woolf's affinity with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn as writer and reader through the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. The author, a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, critiques Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers Montaigne, Donne, Pepys and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de STvignT. She considers the forms traditionally associated with women, such as the essay, the personal letter and diary, in the context of printing, the body, and the relationship between amateurs and professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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: Univ of Iowa Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877455767
• ISBN 13: 9780877455769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 281