Virginia Woolf' Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader?

by Juliet Dusinberre

Book Overview

In this carefully constructed book, Juliet Dusinberre explores Woolf's affinity on many levels with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn though the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. Dusinberre offers a critique of Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers--Montaigne, Donne, Pepys, and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de S vign --and of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877455775
• ISBN13: 9780877455776
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"