Virginia Woolf by Ira Nadel
Featuring new details about Virginia Woolf's homes and personal life, this engaging biography offers a fresh insight into her work, focusing on how place as much as imagination fashioned her writing.
"Ira Nadel's Virginia Woolf is a wide-ranging yet succinct treatment of Woolfs life and career, as she experienced and remembered them, and as they appear in diaries, letters, essays, and fictional writingsIt comprehensively explores her upbringing and family life, her marriage, friendships, and affairs, her difficult medical history, as well as her relationship to historical events." - Alan Friedman, Thaman Professor of English & Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin
"The integration of place and space into the discussion of Woolf’s writings and biography make for an interesting and informative read, providing avid Woolf readers with a new lens through which to view her works and those less familiar with her work with enough background to get started . . . As a Critical Lives biography. its aim is to provide readers with a broad understanding of her life and work, which this volume admirably docs, and it even manages to dig up some shards for future explorations of her writings" - Gay and Lesbian Review
"Nadel’s relatively brief biography of Woolf, then, provides an excellent introduction to this writer’s life" - Modern Language Review
"The integration of place and space into the discussion of Woolf’s writings and biography make for an interesting and informative read, providing avid Woolf readers with a new lens through which to view her works and those less familiar with her work with enough background to get started . . . As a Critical Lives biography. its aim is to provide readers with a broad understanding of her life and work, which this volume admirably docs, and it even manages to dig up some shards for future explorations of her writings" - Gay and Lesbian Review
"Nadel’s relatively brief biography of Woolf, then, provides an excellent introduction to this writer’s life" - Modern Language Review
Ira Nadel, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen, Tom Stoppard and David Mamet, as well as studies of Joyce, Ezra Pound and Modernism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780236667 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780236662 |
| Title | Virginia Woolf |
| Author | Ira Nadel |
| Series | Critical Lives |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2016-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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