English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Public Opinion - General & Miscellaneous, Feminist Literary Criticism, Politics & Literature, Women Authors - British - Litera
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In this new paperback edition of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations, Anna Snaith explores the centrality of ideas of public and private in Woolf's life and writing. The book offers a fresh understanding of Woolf's feminism, her narrative techniques, her attitudes to publication, and her role in public debate. It draws on new manuscript material and previously unexplored letters to Woolf from her reading public.
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In a 1940 diary entry, Woolf wrote: "how queer the change is from private writing to public writing." In this holistic contribution to Woolf scholarship that goes beyond viewing her every word as informed by militant feminism, Snaith (English, Anglia Polytechnic U.) traces Woolf's negotiations between the private and public realms as voiced in her narrative strategies in shifting from the privately-generated fiction of to representing historical and public concerns (e.g. representing women's lives, World War II) in the biography. Though a list is included of later editions of works cited, including their original publication dates would have been helpful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 12, 2003
Publisher
Houndmills [England] : Macmillan Press ; 2000.
Pages
194
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781403911780