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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.
Editions of The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780521838832
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780521547567
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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.
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What is The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf?
Jane Goldman
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780521838832) and paperback(ISBN 9780521547567)