Routledge Revivals: Arguing With The Past (1989): Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney

by Gillian Beer

Book Overview

First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf's reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138576468
• ISBN13: 9781138576469
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"