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Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path - by Barbara Lounsberry (Paperback)

Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path - by  Barbara Lounsberry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Choice Outstanding Academic Title</b> <p>In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including <i>Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando</i>, and <i>A Room of One's Own</i>. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style.</p><p>Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. <i>Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path</i> offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this volume is a love letter for all scholars of Woolf and modernism, and for neophytes interested in the aegis of Woolf's distinctive style. Essential."--<i><b>Choice</i></b> "Lounsberry has done for Woolf's diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf's novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it."--<i><b>New Republic</i></b> "An ambitious project that significantly advances our understanding of Woolf's development as a diarist and a professional writer."--<i><b>English Literature in Transition</i></b> "Lounsberry's years of meditation on her material can be felt. . . . In the passionate diary-reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf."--<i><b>Times Literary Supplement</i></b> "Convincingly situates the diary as an integral part of Woolf's developing modernist aesthetic, and as a work worthy of study in its own right."--<i><b>Woolf Studies Annual</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Barbara Lounsberry</b> is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of <i>Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read</i> and <i>The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction</i> and is coeditor of <i>Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality</i>.

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