The Unknown Virginia Woolf - Hardcover

Poole, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521219876 ISBN 13: 9780521219877

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1978

Synopsis

A fourth edition of a title first published in 1978, which provides a study of the life and work of Virginia Woolf, offering reasons for her breakdown and demonstrating the ways in which she challenged the conventions of communication, with a new preface evaluating recent developments in the study of her work included in this edition.

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Review

'... in the best sense of an over-used word, it is challenging; it makes us aware of the dangers of a canon being too easily established in biographical interpretation, and of the closeness of relation between the novels and the life. It is especially welcomed for its verve, its overriding sense of engagement, its self-evident 'need to be written'.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Poole's analysis of Virginia's marriage to Leonard Woolf is deadly frank and honest - and, I feel, absolutely accurate. As is the rest of this remarkable work. The Unknown Virginia Woolf is a brilliantly argued interpretation of the life of a genius, much maligned by her closest associates and friends.' Eric Hiscock, The Bookseller

Book Description

The Unknown Virginia Woolf is now recognised as one of the classic studies of Woolf's life and work. Roger Poole revises the conventional view of Woolf's madness to reveal hidden areas of textual and biographical meaning. This new edition contains a specially written preface evaluating contemporary developments in Woolf and feminist studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521219876
• ISBN 13: 9780521219877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291