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Afterwords de Virginia Woolf

Afterwords

Autor Virginia Woolf Editat de Sybil Oldfield
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2005
On March 28, 1941, at the height of Hitler's victories during the Second World War, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Since that time, Woolf's suicide has been the subject of controversy for the media, for literary scholars and for her biographers. At the time of her death, some voices in the press attacked her for showing cowardice in the face of the enemy and for setting a bad example to the general population.Just when it may seem that nothing else could be said about Virginia Woolf and the ambiguous details of her suicide, this unique volume provides an entirely fresh perspective by making available to a wide readership for the first time the letters sent to Leonard Woolf and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister) in the aftermath of the event. The volume brings together over two hundred letters from T. S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, May Sarton, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Radclyffe Hall, and many others, i
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ISBN-13: 9780748622429
ISBN-10: 074862242X
Pagini: 221
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

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A most unusual book which gives an unusually intimate insight into the attitudes of the period. Offering unusual and privileged perspectives, this volume expands our sense of [Woolf's] life. With this volume Sybil Oldfield has given us an incredibly rich and invaluable resource ... The extent of the research has been vast and the potted biographical notes on the correspondents, as well as their letters, will be appreciated and used by scholars for years to come. ! These letters are a moving and poignant emotional snapshot of a most significant moment in English literary history. What a compelling story! Sybil Oldfield's deft editing and delightfully informative notes allow the reader to watch the drama of Virginia Woolf's death play out without the least bit of ghoulishness. It is actually liberating to find that she was mourned so deeply as a passionate friend and a major public intellectual both by her friends and by masses of common readers, political comrades of the Labour Party left, pacifists and feminists. Virginia Woolf would have made a novel out of these condolence letters. Sybil Oldfield has made a fast-paced and gripping drama. -- Jane Marcus, author of Hearts of Darkness Written in the darkest days of World War II, these moving letters eloquently testify to the surprising breadth of Virginia Woolf's literary and personal appeal. As a whole, the correspondence is a unique contribution to British cultural history. -- Mark Hussey, General Editor, Harcourt Annotated Works of Virginia Woolf ...the letters are remarkably moving...Oldfield has researched the authors and provides fascinating background detail, and this brings emotional relief between letters. Virginia Woolf Miscellany A most unusual book which gives an unusually intimate insight into the attitudes of the period. Offering unusual and privileged perspectives, this volume expands our sense of [Woolf's] life. With this volume Sybil Oldfield has given us an incredibly rich and invaluable resource ... The extent of the research has been vast and the potted biographical notes on the correspondents, as well as their letters, will be appreciated and used by scholars for years to come. ! These letters are a moving and poignant emotional snapshot of a most significant moment in English literary history. What a compelling story! Sybil Oldfield's deft editing and delightfully informative notes allow the reader to watch the drama of Virginia Woolf's death play out without the least bit of ghoulishness. It is actually liberating to find that she was mourned so deeply as a passionate friend and a major public intellectual both by her friends and by masses of common readers, political comrades of the Labour Party left, pacifists and feminists. Virginia Woolf would have made a novel out of these condolence letters. Sybil Oldfield has made a fast-paced and gripping drama. Written in the darkest days of World War II, these moving letters eloquently testify to the surprising breadth of Virginia Woolf's literary and personal appeal. As a whole, the correspondence is a unique contribution to British cultural history. ...the letters are remarkably moving...Oldfield has researched the authors and provides fascinating background detail, and this brings emotional relief between letters.