Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989): Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney - Hardcover

Beer, Gillian

 
9781138576414: Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989): Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney
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ISBN 10: 1138576417 ISBN 13: 9781138576414
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf’s reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers.

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Gillian Beer

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138576417
ISBN 13 
9781138576414
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
218

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