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Book SynopsisThis book for the first time brings together Gillian Beer's essays on Virginia Woolf.
Trade ReviewBeer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf. Beer herself is a wordsmith; the book is a pleasure and a challenge to read for its vocabulary and the poetry of its prose...will be invaluable to readers of Woolf. Beer and Bowlby are theoretically sophisticated and innovative...Edinburgh has produced fine, large, well-bound volumes...two of the best recent books on Woolf.
Table of ContentsIntroduction to "Between the Acts"; introduction to "The Waves"; Virginia Woolf and prehistory; essay on elegy in "To the Lighthouse"; the body of the people in Virginia Woolf; the island and the aeroplane - the case of Virginia Woolf; essay on "Between the Acts", the diaries, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Bowen; essay on Woolf and the work of Arthur Eddington.
