Virginia Woolf : reading the Renaissance / edited by Sally Greene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

European literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Appreciation--England.

English fiction--European influences.

English fiction.

Renaissance in literature.

European literature--Renaissance.

England.

Physical Description:

xi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [1999]

Summary:

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 that 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

ISBN:

0821412698

OCLC:

40229134