Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies
- ISBN-10
- 0230206042
- ISBN-13
- 9780230206045
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 305
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-03-28
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- A. Snaith
Description
This book is an invaluable guide to the body of criticism on Virginia Woolf. It includes comprehensive and insightful chapters on different approaches to Woolf, including feminist, historicist, postcolonial and biographical. The essays provide concise summaries of the key works in the field as well as an engaging description of the approach itself.
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