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A Companion to Virginia Woolf
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This volume is ideal for students, researchers, and scholars interested in literary modernism, Woolf's oeuvre, and interdisciplinary studies.
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A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.
Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research:
- Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law.
- Explores the multiple trajectories Woolfβs work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America.
- Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies.
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Mary Jean Corbett in Virginia Woolf Miscellany highlights: "Berman succeeds in showing the enormous relevance of contemporary approaches to Woolf studies, and of Woolf studies to global and transnational print culture, now and in her own time."
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ISBN: 9781119115083
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Contributors:
- Edited by Jessica Berman
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 168.0mm
Height: 239.0mm
Weight: 794g
Pages: 528
About the Author
Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), and co-editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2001) and of the Modernist Latitudes book series. She also served as president of the Modernist Studies Association in 2016Β17.
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