Reading Virginia Woolf
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Reading Virginia Woolf

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Reading Virginia Woolf

About this book

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels - from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to 'Englishness' and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's 'Paris'), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally - and even numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and more meaningfully into Woolf's work. Features* Addresses a wide range of familiar and less familiar texts, including Woolf's short stories.* Opens up difficult texts in an inviting style.* Covers aspects of Woolf's work that have been consistently neglected or have never been considered before.

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Information

Publisher
EUP
Year
2006
eBook ISBN
9780748626953
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Essay 1 Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: or, Her Silence on Master William
  7. Essay 2 ‘The Proper Writing of Lives’: Biography versus Fiction in Woolf’s Early Work
  8. Essay 3 Night and Day: The Marriage of Dreams and Realities
  9. Essay 4 Reading People, Reading Texts: ‘Byron and Mr Briggs’
  10. Essay 5 ‘Modernism’s Lost Hope’: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the Printing of Paris
  11. Essay 6 The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction
  12. Essay 7 The Search for Form (ii): Revision and the Numbers of Time
  13. Essay 8 ‘This Moment I Stand On’: Virginia Woolf and the Spaces in Time
  14. Essay 9 ‘Like a Shell on a Sandhill’: Woolf’s Images of Emptiness
  15. Essay 10 Constantinople: At the Crossroads of the Imagination
  16. Essay 11 The Conversation behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable
  17. Essay 12 ‘Sudden Intensities’: Frame and Focus in Woolf’s Later Short Stories
  18. Essay 13 ‘Almost Ashamed of England Being so English’: Woolf and Ideas of Englishness
  19. Essay 14 Between the Texts: Virginia Woolf’s Acts of Revision
  20. Index