Virginia Woolf

This book introduces you to the life and works of Virginia Woolf. It reveals her as emotionally insightful, exploring the texture of changing relationships, expressing from the inside how it feels to be alive. Discover how Woolf challenges the conventions of the novel recreating and representing life rather than becoming enslaved by plot.

Introduction

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How to use this book

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How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts

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Summary

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Why Read Virginia Woolf's Work Today?

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A radical writer

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An experimental writer

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Life from the inside

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Summary

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How to Approach Woolf's Work

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To the Lighthouse (1925)

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Summary

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Biography and Influences

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Early life

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Death of Thoby

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The Bloomsbury group

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Woolf's sense of humour

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Illness and productivity

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Deep depression

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Summary

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Virginia Woolf-Major Themes

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Woolf as a woman writer/on women and writing

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Shakespeare's sister and Mary Carmichael

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Women write differently to men

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Opposites and polarities

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No more angels in the house

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Modernist challenges to the novel

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Identity and relationships

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The personal is political: public and private

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Summary

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Major Works

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General

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Mrs Dalloway (1925)

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To the Lighthouse (1925)

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Orlando (1928)

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The Waves (1931)

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Contemporary Critical Approaches

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The move away from realism

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Woolf as innovator

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Between poetry and fiction

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Admiration overseas

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Summary

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Modern Critical Approaches

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Psychoanalytic approaches

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Autobiography and psychoanalysis

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Feminist critical approaches

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Feminist psychoanalytical readings

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Summary

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Where Next?

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The Voyage Out (1915)

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Night and Day (1919)

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Jacob's Room (1922)

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In Between the Acts (1941)

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The Years (1937)

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Other modernists

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Glossary

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Chronology of Major Works

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