Virginia Woolf
Subtitle: reading the Renaissance
By: edited by Sally Greene.
Contributors: Greene, Sally.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Appreciation -- England.; English literature -- European influences.; Renaissance in literature.
Description: "The story of "Shakespeare's sister" that Virginia Woolf tells in A Room of One's Own has sparked interest in the question of the place of the woman writer in the Renaissance. By now, the process of recovering lost voices of early modern women is well under way. But Woolf's engagement with the Renaissance went deeper than the question indicates, as important as it was. Her writing reveals a lifelong conversation with the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the travel narratives of Hakluyt to the works of Donne, Milton, Montaigne, and of course Shakespeare." "The first collection of essays to explore Woolf's Renaissance, Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance reflects an important interdisciplinary development: contributors include Renaissance as well as twentieth-century specialists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-282) and index.