The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

by Lisa Williams

On first consideration, Nobel prize winning African-American author Toni Morrison would seem to have little in common with Virginia Woolf, the British writer who challenged Victorian concepts of womanhood. But Woolf's achievement and influence have been enduring, so much so that Morrison wrote her masters thesis on Woolf and William Faulkner. In that thesis, Morrison gives special attention to issues of isolation, and she notes that for Woolf,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311900
• ISBN13: 9780313311901
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"