The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107052084 ISBN 13: 9781107052086

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

To The Lighthouse is one of the most important of Virginia Woolf's modernist achievements. Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, this Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike. Individual chapters explore the biographical and textual genesis of the novel; its narrative perspectives and use of form; its thematic and formal attention to time and space; and its representations of feminism and gender as well as generational change, race, and class. Complete with a chapter on the novel's critical history, a chronology, and a guide to further reading, this volume synthesizes To The Lighthouse's major ideas and formal innovations while also summarizing and advancing critical debate.

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Review:

'... the volume ... offers readers a succinct, engaging, and helpful overview of the shifts in critical perspective over time.' Nell Wasserstrom, Modern Language Review

Book Description:

Written by leading Woolf and modernism scholars, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars. Complete with a chapter on critical history, a chronology, and a guide to further reading, this volume synthesizes the major ideas and formal innovations while also summarizing and advancing critical debate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107052084
• ISBN 13: 9781107052086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Pease Allison