
Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path
Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read
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About this book
In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style.
Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Crisis Calls for a New Diary Audience and Purpose
- 2. New Diary Realms: Talk, the Soul, and Literature
- 3. Jealousy, Illness, and Diary Rescue
- 4. Voice and Motion
- 5. Spare, Modernist Perfection
- 6. Rush, Urgency, Wound, and Rescue
- 7. Renewed Diary Experiment: The Reach for Literature and Beyond
- 8. The Loose-Leaf Diary
- 9. Artist at a Crossroads
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index