Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations

ISBN-13: 9780333760277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 194 str.

Anna Snaith

Opis

In Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations, Anna Snaith explores the centrality of ideas of public and private in Woolf's life and writing. The book offers a fresh understanding of Woolf's feminism, her narrative techniques, her attitudes to publication, and her role in public debate. It draws on new manuscript material and previously unexplored letters to Woolf from her reading public.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction From Private to Public: Hyde Park Gate to Bloomsbury Representing Women's Lives 'I Wobble.' Narrative Strategies: Public and Private Voices Negotiating Genre: Re-Visioning History in 'The Pargiters' The Reading Public: Respondents to Three Guineas 'With this Odd Mix Up of Public and Private I Left Off': War, Audience and Artist 1939-1941 'A Little Cairn of Conjectures' Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

ANNA SNAITH is a Lecturer in English at King's College, University of London. She received her doctorate from University College London where she taught from 1993-1997. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Angela Carter. She is co-editor with David Trotter of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands and has edited the Three Guineas Letter to Virginia Woolf.