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Description for Virginia Woolf
Paperback. Arguing that every one of Woolf's books was quite different in technique from every other, this study argues that the author never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life. Aspects of Woolf's work are examined against various historical contexts. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
In Virginia Woolf's life, writing was the activity that mattered more than anything else: she would not have survived without it. She was her own publisher and had an unusual degree of control over her own work. This enabled her to pursue a career of extraordinary experimentation and inventiveness. It has never been sufficiently stressed that every one of her books was quite different in technique from every other. John Mepham argues that she never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life. Her purposes as a writer constantly changed. Mepham tells the ... Read more
In Virginia Woolf's life, writing was the activity that mattered more than anything else: she would not have survived without it. She was her own publisher and had an unusual degree of control over her own work. This enabled her to pursue a career of extraordinary experimentation and inventiveness. It has never been sufficiently stressed that every one of her books was quite different in technique from every other. John Mepham argues that she never settled on one way of writing because she never settled on one view of life. Her purposes as a writer constantly changed. Mepham tells the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Series
Literary Lives
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333665497
SKU
V9780333665497
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Reviews for Virginia Woolf
'Mepham has produced a book likely to help any reader towards a more perceptive and rewarding reading of Woolf' - Bernard Harrison, Times Literary Supplement '...highly informative and insightful...' - Jeanne Dubino, Virginia Woolf Miscellany