Virginia Woolfs Renaissance

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349256447
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Renaissance written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-05-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

Author : Sally Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Sally Greene and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of "Shakespeare's sister" that Virginia Woolf tells in A Room of One's Own has sparked interest in the question of the place of the woman writer in the Renaissance. By now, the process of recovering lost voices of early modern women is well under way. But Woolf's engagement with the Renaissance went deeper than that question indicates, as important as it was. Her writing reveals a lifelong conversation with the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the travel narratives of Hakluyt to the works of Donne, Milton, Montaigne, and of course Shakespeare. The first collection of essays to explore Woolf's Renaissance, Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance reflects an important interdisciplinary development: contributors include Renaissance as well as twentieth-century specialists. Part of a larger movement to explore the intellectual currents shaping our literary and cultural inheritance, these essays speak to a community of readers that includes, in addition to Woolf and Renaissance scholars, anyone interested in the deep roots of modernism, women's studies, or literary history itself.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877455776
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Renaissance written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Sevigne. 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 copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alice Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Literature of the English Renaissance written by Alice Fox and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the influence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature on Virginia Woolf's novels and criticism which offers new interpretations and enriches our understanding of Woolf's creative process.

Author : Jane Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139457888
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf written by Jane Goldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jane de Gay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626352
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past written by Jane de Gay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.

Author : Susan Sellers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521896940
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf written by Susan Sellers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0746307217
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Laura Marcus and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

Author : Rachel Eisendrath
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375435
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallery of Clouds written by Rachel Eisendrath and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Shakespeare borrowed an episode from it for King Lear; Virginia Woolf saw it as “some luminous globe” wherein “all the seeds of English fiction lie latent.” In Gallery of Clouds, the Renaissance scholar Rachel Eisendrath has written an extraordinary homage to Arcadia in the form of a book-length essay divided into passing clouds: “The clouds in my Arcadia, the one I found and the one I made, hold light and color. They take on the forms of other things: a cat, the sea, my grandmother, the gesture of a teacher I loved, a friend, a girlfriend, a ship at sail, my mother. These clouds stay still only as long as I look at them, and then they change.” Gallery of Clouds opens in New York City with a dream, or a vision, of meeting Virginia Woolf in the afterlife. Eisendrath holds out her manuscript—an infinite moment passes—and Woolf takes it and begins to read. From here, in this act of magical reading, the book scrolls out in a series of reflective pieces linked through metaphors and ideas. Golden threadlines tie each part to the next: a rupture of time in a Pisanello painting; Montaigne’s practice of revision in his essays; a segue through Vivian Gordon Harsh, the first African American head librarian in the Chicago public library system; a brief history of prose style; a meditation on the active versus the contemplative life; the story of Sarapion, a fifth-century monk; the persistence of the pastoral; image-making and thought; reading Willa Cather to her grandmother in her Chicago apartment; the deviations of Walter Benjamin’s “scholarly romance,” The Arcades Project. Eisendrath’s wondrously woven hybrid work extols the materiality of reading, its pleasures and delights, with wild leaps and abounding grace.

Author : Anne Besnault
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000461882
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories written by Anne Besnault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf’s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the "new": not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting "traditional" historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf’s historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to "think back through our mothers." Bringing together canonical texts such as Orlando (1928), A Room of One’s Own (1929), Three Guineas (1938) or Between the Acts (1941) and under-researched ones — among which stand Woolf’s essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women’s literature — this book argues that Woolf’s textual "conversations" with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poiesis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: "unwritten," open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.