Updated August 17, 2000
R signifies a book placed on 3-day Library Reserve for this seminar.
R Bloom, Harold, ed. Virginia Woolf. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
PR6045 .O72 Z8918 1986
Reprints 18 essays from books and journals, including Auerbach "Brown Stocking" (1953) and John Burt (1982) on To the Lighthouse, McConnell on The Waves (1968), Hillis Miller on Mrs. Dalloway (1982), Virginia Blain on The Voyage Out (1983), and Judy Little on Orlando (1983).
R Clements, Patricia, and Isobel Grundy. Virginia Woolf: New Critical
Essays.
Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.
PR6045 .O72 Z8938 1983
Collection of essays written for this book. Includes essays on VWs relation to other writers (Leslie Stephen, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce) as well as on such topics as her early novels (Blain, also rpt. in Bloom), the "tunnelling process" (Susan Dick), and her choice of names (Isobel Grundy).
R Freedman, Ralph, ed. Virginia Woolf, Revaluation and Continuity: A Collection
of
Essays. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1980.
PR6045 .O72 Z895
This collection of original essays reflects the 1970s feminist reassessment of Woolf.
R Ginsberg, Elaine-K., and Laura Moss Gottlieb, eds. Virginia
Woolf: Centennial Essays.
Troy, NY : Whitston, 1983. xiii, 336 pp
PR6045 .O72 Z8925 1983
R Homans, Margaret, ed. Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
PR6045 .O72 Z89195 1993
Essays with a feminist, postmodern slant.
R Majumdar, Robin, and Allen McLaurin. Virginia Woolf: The Critical
Heritage.
London: Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.
PR6045 .O72 Z893
Collects contemporary reviews of all of Woolfs works, organized chronologically by each work, concluding with Between the Acts (1941). Includes obituaries.
R Marcus, Jane, ed. New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
PR604 .N4 1981
These original essays represent a major shift in approaches to Woolf, led by Jane Marcus, emphasizing political (especially Marxist) readings of Woolfs work, directed to "radical and feminist readers."
R Marcus, Jane, ed. Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant. Lincoln: University
of
Nebraska Press, 1983.
PR6045 .O72 Z892 1983
Another collection of original works, emphasizing "the arts of biography, textual scholarship, and history" as opposed to the deconstructive practice that was current at that time.
Sprague, Claire. Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
PR6045 .O72 Z878
This collection of previously published essays represents a less political (and less feminist) approach to Woolf. Bloom reprints three of these in his 1986 collection (Brower on Mrs. Dalloway, Auerbach on To the Lighthouse, and McConnell on The Waves), perhaps indicating a conservative resistance to both political and theoretical approaches, and a preference for formalist readings.
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