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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance

Woman Reader or Common Reader?

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Juliet Dusinberre

    1. Girton College, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Virginia Woolf’s Renaissance: Amateurs and Professionals

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    Pages 1-39

  3. Virginia Woolf and Montaigne: Them and Us

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    Pages 40-64

  4. Virginia Woolf Reads John Donne

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    Pages 65-93

  5. Letters as Resistance: Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sévigné and Virginia Woolf

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    Pages 94-125

  6. Diaries: Pepys and Woolf

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    Pages 126-165

  7. Bunyan and Virginia Woolf: A History and a Language of Their Own

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    Pages 166-191

  8. The Body and the Book

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    Pages 192-232

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 233-281
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Dusinberre's book explores Woolf's search, in The Common Reader and other non-fictional writings, for an alternative literary tradition for women. Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women. Questions about printing, the body and the relation between amateurs and professionals create fascinating connections between the early modern period and Virginia Woolf.

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  • Girton College, Cambridge, UK

    Juliet Dusinberre

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