Virginia Woolf: (E) - Hardcover

Harris, Alexandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500515921 ISBN 13: 9780500515921

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose courageous life and tragic death are continuing sources of fascination, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2010

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About the Author

Alexandra Harris studied at Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London, and worked at Christie's for a year before returning to Oxford to write a doctorate on art and literature in the 1930s. She is now a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, running courses on Modernism and American writing, and leading the MA in Contemporary Literature. Her first full-length book, Romantic Moderns, published by Thames & Hudson, was the winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award. Alexandra Harris was also a winner in the BBC's 'New Generation Thinkers' contest in 2011.

From the Back Cover

Alexandra Harriss hugely acclaimed book Romantic Moderns (winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture during the interwar years. In this, her second book, she brings her attention to one of the towering figures of literary modernism. It is an intensely pleasurable read that weaves together the life and work of Virginia Woolf, and serves as an ideal introduction to both. Following the chronology of Woolfs life, it considers each of the novels in context, gives d

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500515921
• ISBN 13: 9780500515921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192