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This is the first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.

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Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. -- Nancy L Paxton Virginia Woolf Miscellany ...carefully researched and clearly written. Woolf Studies Annual Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. ...carefully researched and clearly written.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.

Virginia Woolfs Novels and the Literary Past

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 26/09/2007
      ISBN13: 9780748633029, 978-0748633029
      ISBN10: 0748633022
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.

      Trade Review
      Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. -- Nancy L Paxton Virginia Woolf Miscellany ...carefully researched and clearly written. Woolf Studies Annual Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. ...carefully researched and clearly written.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.

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