Virginia Woolf's essays : sketching the past / Elena Gualtieri.

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Gualtieri, Elena, 1966- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Description
ix, 176 pages ; 23 cm

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    "Elena Gualtieri gives compelling reasons for reading Woolf's essays as the traces of a never-realised historical work that would have covered the whole panorama of English literature. Following tenaciously the multiple directions taken by Woolf's non-fiction, Gualtieri reveals the deep roots of the difficulties that besieged Woolf in the search for a form of writing that would accommodate her tangential vision of literary history. She shows how in the non-fiction Woolf moves between essays and sketches as the two poles within which her historical project comes to be defined, the essay as the embodiment of the modernist fragment, the sketch as a way of recovering the past through narrative form. In so doing, Gualtieri also outlines a powerful argument about the relationship between the verbal, the visual and memory in modernism that has implications which go beyond the limits of Woolf studies."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-172) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Virginia Woolf, European Essayist
    • Eccentric Histories
    • Virginia Woolf Practising
    • Eccentrics, Obscure and Anon
    • The Essay as Form
    • The Essay as Autobiography
    • Common Readers and Modern Audiences
    • Professing Literature
    • Working Women and Women Writers
    • Art and Feminist Propaganda: Three Guineas
    • Sketching the Past, or the Fictions of Autobiography
    • Literature and the Scene of Memory
    • Orlando: Literary History as Family Romance
    • Images of History
    • Feminist Histories
    • The Imagination as a Golden Cage
    • Postscript: Angels and Harpies.
    ISBN
    • 0312227914 ((cloth))
    • 9780312227913 ((cloth))
    • 0333749316
    • 9780333749319
    LCCN
    99043172
    OCLC
    42021563
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