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Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography Hardcover - 2008

by Maria DiBattista


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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"This book is a lively, original, and very interesting personal reading of Virginia Woolf, sensitively done and well-written. It is clever and illuminating to approach Woolf through the idea of the writerly personae, rather than biographically or in more conventionally critical ways. I enjoyed this book very much and was impressed and refreshed by it."--Hermione Lee, author of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton

"Few critics have the skill to make us see anew; few have taken Woolf's love of words and her own study of their characteristics as seriously as DiBattista does here. By the time one finishes the book, DiBattista has given us a new perspective on Woolf, her love of language, and her sense of the relationship between words, the self, and the personalities inscribed therein."--Brenda R. Silver, Dartmouth College

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  • Title Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography
  • Author Maria DiBattista
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
  • Date 2008-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780691138121 / 0691138125
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.84 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century, Authorship - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008017145
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Choice, 08/01/2009, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 03/06/2009, Page 18

About the author

Maria DiBattista is professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton University. Her books include Virginia Woolf's Major Novels and Fast-Talking Dames.
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