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Virginia Woolf's essays : sketching the past / Elena Gualtieri.
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Gualtieri, Elena, 1966-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Description
ix, 176 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR6045.O72 Z67 2000
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Subject(s)
Literature and history
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Great Britain
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History
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20th century
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Feminism and literature
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England
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History
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20th century
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Women and literature
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England
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History
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20th century
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English essays
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Criticism
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England
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History
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20th century
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Autobiography
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Essay
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Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941
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Prose
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Autobiographies
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Summary note
"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.
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ISBN
0312227914 ((cloth))
9780312227913 ((cloth))
0333749316
9780333749319
LCCN
99043172
OCLC
42021563
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