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Walking Virginia Woolf´s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography
Lisbeth Larsson
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Description for Walking Virginia Woolf´s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography
Hardback. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf's writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they walk around London, demonstrating how Woolf constructs the characters in her stories in a very politically conscious way. As Larsson argues, none of Woolf's characters are able to walk just anywhere, at any time in history, or at any time of the day. Time, place, gender, and class form the conditions of life ... Read more
This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf's writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they walk around London, demonstrating how Woolf constructs the characters in her stories in a very politically conscious way. As Larsson argues, none of Woolf's characters are able to walk just anywhere, at any time in history, or at any time of the day. Time, place, gender, and class form the conditions of life ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319556710
SKU
V9783319556710
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99-15
About Lisbeth Larsson
Lisbeth Larsson has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg since 2000. Her major publications are in the fields of popular culture, feminism and biography. She edited and contributed to The History of Nordic Women's Literature. At present she heads the project Swedish Women Online.
Reviews for Walking Virginia Woolf´s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography
A meticulous and comprehensive addition to stud-ies of Woolf's walking, Lisbeth Larsson's book sets out to trace ... an inductive survey of the actual walks taken by various characters which uses the tools of literary geography to draw insightful conclusions about Woolf's political demarcations of London and her critiques of class, patriarchy, and colonialism. (Elisa Kay Sparks, Woolf Studies ... Read more