Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past
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Literary Studies
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- ISBN 9780748623495
- Weight: 504g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first book to explore Virginia Woolf’s preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.It analyses Woolf’s reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels, exploring how Woolf’s intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf’s varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.Key Features* The first book-length study of intertextuality in Virginia Woolf’s novels;* Offers a challenging and provocative new perspective on Woolf’s art as a novelist;* Develops detailed close readings offering fresh insights into individual works;* Presents complex ideas in a lucid and accessible fashion.
Jane de Gay is an Anglican Priest. She was Professor of English Literature at Leeds Trinity University from 2017-25 and she is currently an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture (2018) and Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the Literary Past (2006), and editor of eight books including Virginia Woolf and Heritage: Selected Papers from the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, with Tom Breckin and Anne Reus (2017), and Voyages Out, Voyages Home: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Virginia Woolf Conference, with Marion Dell (2010). She has published articles in Woolf Studies Annual and Christianity and Literature, as well as chapters in collections such as The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives (2024), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth, and Religion (2023), The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf (2021), and Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf (2020).
