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Virginia Woolf : reading the Renaissance

Author: Sally Greene
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Virginia Woolf.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c1999
(OCoLC)607344112
Named Person: Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sally Greene
ISBN: 0821412698 9780821412695
OCLC Number: 40229134
Description: xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Michelet, Woolf, and the idea of the Renaissance / Sally Greene --
"To quote my quotation from Montaigne" / Nicola Luckhurst --
Rough with rubies: Virginia Woolf and the virgin queen / Reginald Abbott --
The memory palace of Virginia Woolf / Anne E. Fernald --
"Listen and save": Woolf's allusion to Comus in her revolutionary first novel / Lisa Low --
Rewriting family ties: Woolf's Renaissance romance / Diana E. Henderson --
Circe Resartus: To the lighthouse and William Browne of Tavistock's Circe and Ulysses Masque / Kelly Anspaugh --
Laura at the crossroads: A room of one's own and the Elizabethan sonnet / Rebecca Laroche --
Through Woolf's "I's": Donne and the Waves / Diane F. Gillespie --
Woolf, Eliot, and the Elizabethans: the politics of modernist nostalgia / David McWhirter.
Responsibility: edited by Sally Greene.

Abstract:

"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.

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