Virginia Woolf

by Nadel, Ira Bruce

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Title Statements

Full title :Virginia Woolf / Ira Nadel.

Summary

This book draws on Woolf's letters, journals, diaries, autobiographical essays, and fiction, and paints a portrait of the writer in situ, whether in the enclosed surroundings of Hyde Park Gate or the open and free-spirited environs of Gordon Square's Bloomsbury. It shows how Woolf's experimental style was informed by her own reading life and how her deeply sensitive understanding of history, narrative, art, and friendship were rendered in her prose. It explores the famous Bloomsbury group of intellectuals in which she was immersed as well as her relationships with fascinating figures such as Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrel. It looks at Woolf's attitudes toward sex and marriage, analyzes her uncertain social and political views, and, finally, offers a sensitive examination of her mental instabilities and the nervous breakdowns that would plague her for most of her life, up until her suicide in 1941.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Reaktion Books Ltd
Place of Publication:London, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:214 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781780236667, 1780236662
oclc:ocn932385556
LC Classification:PR6045.O72
Dewey Decimal:823/.912

Introduction -- 22 Hyde Park Gate, 1882-1904 -- 46 Gordon Square, 1904-7 -- 29 Fitzroy Square, 1907-11 -- 38 Brunswick Square, 1911-15 -- Hogarth House, 34 Paradise Road, Richmond, 1915-24 -- 52 Tavistock Square, 1924-39 -- Monk's House I, 1919-37 -- Monk's House II, 1938-41 -- Epilogue.

Subjects

01.30 biography, biographic dictionarie… 18.05 English literature Biografie Criticism, interpretation, etc England Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism…