Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations

by A. Snaith

Overview

In Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations , Anna Snaith explores the centrality of ideas of public and private in Woolf's life and writing. The book offers a fresh understanding of Woolf's feminism, her narrative techniques, her attitudes to publication, and her role in public debate. It draws on new manuscript material and previously unexplored letters to Woolf from her reading public.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403911780
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/05/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

ANNA SNAITH is a Lecturer in English at King's College, University of London. She received her doctorate from University College London where she taught from 1993-1997. She has published articles on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Angela Carter. She is co-editor with David Trotter of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands and has edited the Three Guineas Letter to Virginia Woolf.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction From Private to Public: Hyde Park Gate to Bloomsbury Representing Women's Lives 'I Wobble.' Narrative Strategies: Public and Private Voices Negotiating Genre: Re-Visioning History in 'The Pargiters' The Reading Public: Respondents to Three Guineas 'With this Odd Mix Up of Public and Private I Left Off': War, Audience and Artist 1939-1941 'A Little Cairn of Conjectures' Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"...explores Woolf's feminism and socialism, and gives a thoughtful account of her highly characteristic narrative technique... most original."--Julia Briggs, Times Literary Supplement

"...an important contribution to Woolf studies, particularly in its discussions of Woolf's feminism and pacifism, her narrative strategies, her attitudes about gender and class, and her views on history, fact and fiction."--Diana L. Swanson, N. Illinois University, Woolf Studies Annual

"...some very valuable research... Admirable."--Virginia Woolf Bulletin

From the Publisher

In a 1940 diary entry, Woolf wrote: "how queer the change is from private writing to public writing." In this holistic contribution to Woolf scholarship that goes beyond viewing her every word as informed by militant feminism, Snaith (English, Anglia Polytechnic U.) traces Woolf's negotiations between the private and public realms as voiced in her narrative strategies in shifting from the privately-generated fiction of to representing historical and public concerns (e.g. representing women's lives, World War II) in the biography. Though a list is included of later editions of works cited, including their original publication dates would have been helpful. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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