Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks 14 and 46: 1 (Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Reading Notes) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503597610 ISBN 13: 9782503597614

Publisher: Brepols N.V., 2026

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf's reading notes offer a fascinating insight into her mind at work, reading "with a pen and notebook, seriously", engaged in a lively dialogue with the literary tradition, receptive to the books she is reading and preparing at the same time the critical work that she intends to produce. The two notebooks published and presented in this volume, notebooks XIV and XLVI (according to Brenda Silver's classification) were used for the preparation of "Phases of Fiction", one of her most original works, and for several essays and reviews. They include quotations, comments on the spur of the moment, and tentative planning for the writing in progress. This edition situates the notes in the immediate context of Woolf's writing project and in the general context of her relationship to the authors being read. It provides a full transcription of each note and whenever possible quotes the passage in the source from which it derives, and identifies the place where it has been used. It offers a stimulating demonstration of practical intertextuality in progress.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols N.V.
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503597610
• ISBN 13: 9782503597614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357
• Editor: Rigeade Anne-Laure, Latham Monica, Amselle Frederique, Rovera Catherine, Ferrer Daniel