Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City

by Susan Merrill Squier

Book Overview

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. In a 1928 diary entry, she observed, "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets." The city fascinated Woolf, yet her relationship with it was problematic. In her attempts to resolve her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865966
• ISBN13: 9780807865965
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"