ENGLISH

Virginia Woolf’s Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader?

By Juliet Dusinberre (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-0-333-68104-6, 978-1-349-25644-0
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25644-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28705624 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 281\294
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature

Description

Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

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