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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511607295

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For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.

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Contents

Guide to further reading
Guide to further reading
Virginia Woolf's works
Novels
The Voyage Out (London: Duckworth, 1915)
Night and Day (London: Duckworth, 1919)
Jacob's Room (London: Hogarth, 1922)
Mrs Dalloway (London: Hogarth, 1925)
To the Lighthouse (London: Hogarth, 1927)
Orlando: A Biography (London: Hogarth, 1928)
The Waves (London: Hogarth, 1931)
Flush: A Biography (London: Hogarth, 1933)
The Years (London: Hogarth, 1937)
Between the Acts (London: Hogarth, 1941)
Short stories
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, ed. Susan Dick, 2nd edn (London: Hogarth, 1989)
Drama
Freshwater: A Comedy, ed. Lucio Ruotolo (London: Hogarth, 1976)
Non-fiction
A Room of One's Own (London: Hogarth, 1929)
Three Guineas (London: Hogarth, 1938)
Roger Fry: A Biography (London: Hogarth, 1940)
Essays
The Common Reader (London: Hogarth, 1925)
The Common Reader: Second Series (London: Hogarth, 1932)
The Moment and Other Essays (London: Hogarth, 1947)
Collected Essays, 4 vols., ed. Leonard Woolf (London: Hogarth, 1966–7)
Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing, ed. Michèle Barrett (London: Women's Press, 1979)
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, vols. 1–4 (of 6), ed. Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth, 1986–94)
Moments of Being, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, 2nd edn (London: Hogarth, 1985)
The London Scene (London: Snowbooks, 2004)
Diaries, journals, letters
The Letters of Virginia Woolf (1888–1941), 6 vols., ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman (London: Hogarth, 1975–80)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf (1915–1941), 5 vols., ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth, 1977–84)
Virginia Woolf's Reading Notebooks, ed. Brenda Silver (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983)
A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897–1909, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (London: Hogarth, 1990)
Holograph and draft editions
The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion of ‘The Years’, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (London: Hogarth, 1978)
Pointz Hall: The Earlier and Later Typescripts of ‘Between the Acts’, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (New York: J. Jay Press, 1982)
To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft, ed. Susan Dick (Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1983)
The Waves: The Two Holograph Drafts, ed. J. W. Graham (London: Hogarth, 1983)
Women & Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of ‘A Room of One's Own’, ed. S. P. Rosenbaum (Oxford: Shakespeare Head, Blackwell, 1992)
Orlando: The Holograph Draft, ed. Stuart N. Clarke (London: S. N. Clarke, 1993)
Virginia Woolf's ‘The Hours’: The British Museum Manuscript of ‘Mrs Dalloway’, ed. Helen M. Wussow (New York: Pace University Press, 1996)
Virginia Woolf's ‘Jacob's Room’: The Holograph Draft, ed. Edward Bishop (New York: Pace University Press, 1998)
Melymbrosia: An Early Version of ‘The Voyage Out’, ed. Louise DeSalvo (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2002)
Secondary Sources
Selected biographies
Bell, Quentin, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, 2 vols. (London: Hogarth, 1972)
Briggs, Julia, Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life (London: Penguin, 2005)
Fuegi, John, and Jo Francis (dirs.), The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf DVD (Flare Films: 1995)
Gordon, Lyndall, Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1996)
Reid, Panthea, Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Selected journals
Woolf Studies Annual (1995–)
Virginia Woolf Bulletin (1999–)
Modern Fiction Studies Special Issues on Virginia Woolf: Spring 1956; Autumn 1972; Spring 1992; Spring 2004
South Carolina Review Special Issue on Virginia Woolf: Autumn 1996
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal Special Issue: ‘Virginia Woolf in Performance’ (August 1999) ed. Sally Greene
Bibliography
Kirkpatrick, B. J., and Clarke, Stuart N., A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, 4th edn (Oxford and New York: Clarendon, 1997)
Selected recommended criticism and reference works
Barrett, Eileen, and Cramer, Patricia (eds.) Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York: New York University Press, 1997)
Beer, Gillian, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
Black, Naomi, Virginia Woolf as Feminist (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004)
Bowlby, Rachel, Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997)
Bowlby, Rachel(ed.), Virginia Woolf (London: Longman, 1992)
Caws, Mary Ann, and Luckhurst, Nicola (eds.), The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe (London: Continuum, 2002)
Chapman, Wayne, and Manson, Janet (eds.), Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education (New York: Pace University Press, 1998)
Froula, ChristineVirginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilisation and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005)
Goldman, Jane, (ed.), The Icon Critical Guide to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Icon, 1997)
Greene, Sally (ed.), Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999)
Gruber, Ruth, Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005)
Gualtieri, Eleanor, Virginia Woolf's Essays: Sketching the Past (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
Homans, Margaret (ed.), Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993)
Hussey, Mark, Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work and Critical Reception (New York: Facts on File, 1995)
Hussey, Mark(ed.), Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality and Myth (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991)
McNees, Eleanor (ed.), Virginia Woolf: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (New York: Helm Information, 1994)
Majumdar, Robin, and McLaurin, Allen (eds.), Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1975)
Marcus, Jane, Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004)
Marcus, Jane(ed.), New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1981)
Marcus, Jane(ed.), Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983)
Marcus, Laura, Writers and Their Work: Virginia Woolf, 2nd edn (Plymouth: Northcote House, 2004)
Mepham, John, Criticism in Focus: Virginia Woolf (London: Bristol Classical Press, 1992)
Merli, Carol (ed.), Illuminations: New Readings of Virginia Woolf (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2004)
Oldfield, Sybil (ed.), Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005)
Peach, Linden, Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
Pawlowski, Merry (ed.), Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators' Seduction (New York: Palgrave, 2001)
Raitt, Suzanne, Vita & Virginia: The Work and Friendship of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)
Roe, Sue, and Sellers, Susan (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Silver, Brenda R., Virginia Woolf Icon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Snaith, Anna (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)
Whitworth, Michael, Authors in Context: Virginia Woolf, Authors in Context Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

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