Zwerdling: Virginia Woolf & The Real World (cloth) - Hardcover

Zwerdling, A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520056841 ISBN 13: 9780520056848

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

"The finest critical book on Virgina Woolf to date. Alex Zwerdling's large and subtle study places Virginia Woolf's world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. The book leaves us with renewed appreciation for Woolf's work and for her mind."
-Elaine Showalter, Princeton University

"Buried beneath piles of criticism Virginia Woolf has at last been dug out by Alex Zwerdling. Virginia Woolf and the Real World is the most enlightened account of the real woman to appear for years."
-Noel Annan, The Observer

"A relief from the Bloomsbury fan dub: penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work."
-Richard Mayne, Encounter

"A well written book that deals with a field of Woolf studies that badly needs dear thinking and dear expression .... I think it a most useful work and in every way first rate."
-Quentin Bell

About this title

Review:

"The most enlightened account of the real woman to appear for years."--"Observer

About the Author:

Alex Zwerdling is University Professor of English at George Washington University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520056841
• ISBN 13: 9780520056848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 370