The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

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With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf''s achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf''s life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and herafterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf''s life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf''s practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf''s experimentalism pay special attention to theliterariness of Woolf''s writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while ''Professions of Writing'', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth