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Description for Virginia Woolf
Paperback. Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Drawing on her letters, journals, diaries, autobiographical essays and fiction, it reveals Woolf's response to her surroundings, from the enclosed space of Hyde Park Gate to the open and free-spirited Bloomsbury. Throughout, Ira Nadel gives consideration to her technique as a novelist, the skills she learned from reading others' work and her concern with history, narrative, art and friendship. Virginia Woolf shows how the context of her life shaped ... Read more
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing. Drawing on her letters, journals, diaries, autobiographical essays and fiction, it reveals Woolf's response to her surroundings, from the enclosed space of Hyde Park Gate to the open and free-spirited Bloomsbury. Throughout, Ira Nadel gives consideration to her technique as a novelist, the skills she learned from reading others' work and her concern with history, narrative, art and friendship. Virginia Woolf shows how the context of her life shaped ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780236667
SKU
V9781780236667
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ira Nadel
Ira Nadel is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Reviews for Virginia Woolf
The integration of place and space into the discussion of Woolf's writings and biography make for an interesting and informative read, providing avid Woolf readers with a new lens through which to view her works and those less familiar with her work with enough background to get started. . . . As a Critical Lives biography. its aim is to ... Read more