This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culturethrough a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance inher modernist aesthetics."
This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culturethrough a focu...
Virginia Woolf is one of the best-known and most influential modernist writers; an iconic figure, her image and reference to her work and life appear in the most varied of cultural sites. Her writing is, however, in many ways kaleidoscopic and has given rise to a diverse and, sometimes, conflicting body of critical work. Whilst Woolf envisaged that her readers could be 'fellow-worker s]' in the creative process, there is much to perplex any reader approaching her writing, especially for the first time.
Drawing on some of the main critical debates and on Woolf's non-fictional...
Virginia Woolf is one of the best-known and most influential modernist writers; an iconic figure, her image and reference to her work and life appe...
