Virginia Woolf and the Visible World

by Emily Dalgarno

Overview

In Virginia Woolf and the Visible World, Emily Dalgarno examines Woolf's engagement with notions of the visible. Dalgarno examines how Woolf's writing engages with visible and nonvisible realms of experience, and draws on ideas from the diverse fields of psychoanalytic theory, classical Greek tragedy, astronomy, photography and photojournalism. Dalgarno offers textual analyses of Woolf's individual works, including To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Three Guineas arguing for the importance of her ongoing interest in Greek translation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521033602
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2007
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Emily Dalgarno is a Professor of English at Boston University, who has also taught at l'Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier. She has published articles in Conrad, Faulkner, Lawrence and Woolf, among others.

Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The hiding places of my power: Woolf's optics; 2. On the far side of language: Greek studies, and Jacob's Room; 3. No God of healing in this story: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; 4. Solar light and darkness: The Waves; 5. The person to whom things happened: 'A Sketch of the Past'; 6. Ruined houses and dead bodies: Three Guineas and the Spanish Civil War; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"[A] fascinating study...Anyone thinking seriously about Woolf and modernism will find Dalgarno's ideas stimulating." Woolf Studies Annual

"valuable for faculty teaching Virginia Woolf." CHOICE Nov 2001

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