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The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf : an Introduction.

For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldman, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Ã2006
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Life; 1882-1909; The 1910s; The 1920s; 1930-1941; Chapter 2 Contexts; Biographies; Bloomsbury; Wider historical and political contexts; Modern and contemporary cultural contexts; Chapter 3 Works; Woolf's fiction; The Voyage Out (1915); Night and Day (1919); Jacob's Room (1922); Mrs Dalloway (1925); To the Lighthouse (1927); Orlando: A Biography (1928); The Waves (1931); Flush: A Biography (1933); The Years (1937); Between the Acts (1941); Short stories; Woolf's nonfiction; A Room of One's Own (1929).
  • 'Modern Fiction' (1919, 1925)'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown' (1924); Three Guineas (1938); Other essays; Chapter 4 Critical reception; Introductory reading; Critical reception; Contemporary reviews and the 1940s: innovation, experimentalism, impressionism; The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy, psychology, myth; The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny, modernism, aesthetics; The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism, sexual/textual politics; The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics; Notes; 1 Life; 2 Contexts; 3 Works; 4 Critical reception; Guide to further reading.
  • Virginia Woolf's worksNovels; Short stories; Drama; Non-fiction; Essays; Diaries, journals, letters; Holograph and draft editions; Secondary Sources; Selected biographies; Selected journals; Bibliography; Selected recommended criticism and reference works; Index.