Virginia Woolf
Subtitle: The Will to Create as a Woman
Edition: Anniversary Edition edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: April 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780786715343
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Essays; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; 1882-1941; 20th century; Criticism and interpretation; England; History; Women and literature; Woolf, Virginia,
First sentence: One morning in the summer of 2004, my research assistant, Maressa Gershowitz, came running into the room where I was working.
Description: "In 1935, Ruth Gruber published a seminal essay on Virginia Woolf that can now be seen for what it was: the first feminist interpretation of Woolf's writings and literary career. Seventy years later, Gruber's critique is presented for the first time in the U.S., accompanied by new material that makes it more meaningful than ever for readers today: facsimile reproductions of previously unpublished correspondence between Woolf and Gruber, and Gruber's new introduction, "My Hours with Virginia Woolf," in which she recalls her 1935 meeting with Woolf in her London home. Gruber also examines perennial questions concerning Woolf's bi-polar illness and anti-semitism." "In her trailblazing analysis, Gruber perceptively examines Woolf's concept of gender and her literary influences, cogently discussing how Woolf constructed a feminine writing style in a realm dominated by men. Above all, she shows how Woolf strove consciously to create as a woman."--Jacket.