Maggie Humm Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual / Maggie Humm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humm, Maggie, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Brings together Maggie Humm's pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual culturesExplores a range of critical approaches to Woolfs writings including modernism, psychoanalysis, French feminist theory, and postmodernismA survey and analysis of feminist criticism from the 1970sAn historical account of UK womens writing from 1900 to the presentThis book principally coheres around a sense of womens writing as inseparable from its cultural production. The multi-faceted essays here reveal how feminist criticism changed in one academics career from 1986 from the publication of her stellar work, Feminist Criticism. Snapshots discusses theories including the anxiety of influence, ecriture feminine, postmodernism, life-writing all informed by a belief that subjectivity and creativity are integral to non-fiction writing. At the centre of these discussions is the work of Virginia Woolf, whose reputation and scholarly status are unique. The book maps Humm's writing on feminism, visual culture and twentieth-century womens writing across forty transformative years of criticism. Readers and scholars will benefit from the books historical and theoretical range, as well as its autobiographical fragments. It demonstrates how feminists try always to be critically innovative, and the ways in which Maggie Humm's work has opened up new avenues into twentieth-century womens writing, film and feminist criticism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editors Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Snapshots of Memory

Part I Feminism

1 Feminist Literary Criticism

2 Feminism in the Academy

3 Foregrounding Women Writers: British Women Writers 1900 to the Present

4 Writing across Borders

5. From Essentialism to Intertextuality

Part II Virginia Woolf

6 Linking Women through Time: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Mai Zetterling

7 Photography, Gender and Virginia Woolfs Portraits

8 Postmodernism and Orlando

9 The 1930s, Photography and Virginia Woolfs Flush

10 Woolf and the Visual

Autobiography and a Final Snapshot

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 14 2026)

ISBN:

1-3995-6098-0