(H/B) THE ESSAYS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (VOLUME 5)

Παρουσίαση

Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa; this volume shows her thinking about the possibility of poeticising the novel ("The Waves" was the result) and in some of these pieces ("Women and Fiction", "Women and Leisure") she considers the relationship between women, writing and society - the preoccupation that would become such a large part of her legacy."The Common Reader: Second Series" comprises a significant part of this volume - it was first published in 1932 to excellent reviews.
('They are wholly delightful. They are sensitive, acute, picturesque, humorous, and yet severe' - Vita Sackville-West; 'Is there anybody writing anywhere in the world at this moment who could surpass the essay...so beautifully moulded into a form appropriate to its content that what is an authentic critical masterpiece seems as light on the mind as a song?' - Rebecca West).
This collection shows Woolf's genius as a critic and essayist: as well as displaying her perceptive understanding of writers and their work, it also offers us an important insight into her creative mind. Continuing the work of former editor Andrew McNeillie, Stuart N. Clarke brings fresh light to Woolf's essays and enriches them with variations. This penultimate volume forms part of an indispensable, unique collection from one of our greatest writers. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1929. On not knowing French
Geraldine and Jane
Women and fiction
The 'censorship' of books
Phases of fiction
Dr Burney's evening party
Cowper and Lady Austen (headnote)
Beau Brummell
Mary Wollstonecraft (headnote)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Women and leisure
An excerpt from A room of one's own
1930. Foreword to Recent paintings by Vanessa Bell
Augustine Birrell
Fanny Burney's half-sister
Wm. Hazlitt, the man
Memories of a working women's guild
On being ill
I am Christina Rossetti
1931. All about books
Introductory letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies
Lockhart's criticism
George Eliot, 1819-1880
Edmund Gosse
Aurora Leigh
The love of reading
The docks of London
1932. Oxford Street tide
The Rev. William Cole : a letter
Great men's houses
Abbeys and cathedrals
A letter to a young poet
'This is the House of Commons'
The common reader : second series. The strange Elizabethans
Donne after three centuries
'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'
'Robinson Crusoe'
Dorothy Osborne's 'letters'
Swift's 'Journal to Stella'
The 'sentimental journey'
Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son
Two parsons. James Woodforde ; The Rev. John Skinner
Dr Burney's evening party
Jack Mytton
De Quincey's autobiography
Four figures. Cowper and Lady Austen ; Beau Brummell ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Dorothy Wordsworth
William Hazlitt
Geraldine and Jane
'Aurora Leigh'
The niece of an Earl
George Gissing
The novels of George Meredith
'I am Christina Rossetti'
The novels of Thomas Hardy
How should one read a book?
Leslie Stephen, the philosopher at home : a daughter's memories
Portrait of a Londoner
Appendices. George Gissing ; Notes of a day's walk ; The essays of Augustine Birrell ; The Women's Co-operative Guild ; Speech to the London and National Society for Women's Service ; As a light to letters ; The text of The common reader : second series ; Notes on the journals.