Reading Virginia Woolf - Softcover

Briggs, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074862435X ISBN 13: 9780748624355

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels - from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally - and even numerologically - significant. A final ess

About this title

About the Author:

Julia Briggs is Former Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the De Montfort University

Review:

All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired, and provocative readings of Woolf's work.

(Vara Naverow, Southern Connecticut State University)

[An] elegant collection.

(Sally Bayley Times Literary Supplement)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 074862435X
• ISBN 13: 9780748624355
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256