Title Imagining Virginia Woolf : an experiment in critical biography / Maria DiBattista

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) Contents The demon of reading -- The figment of the author -- Personalities -- Woolf's personalities -- The Sibyl of the drawing room -- The author -- The critic -- The world writer -- The adventurer -- Epilogue -- Anon once more Summary Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and i Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Psychology SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Psychology Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast Subject Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography Authors, English -- 20th century -- Psychology Authorship -- Psychological aspects. Personality in literature. Authors and readers. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. Authors and readers Authors, English Authors, English -- Psychology Authorship -- Psychological aspects Personality in literature Psychology Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400830046 1400830044 1282157280 9781282157286 9786612157288 6612157283

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