Includes bibliographical references and index Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel.The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction....
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Includes bibliographical references and index Explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel.The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation to her fiction. Randi Saloman shows that it was by employing tools and methods drawn from the essay genre - such as fragmentation, stream-of-consciousness and dialogic engagement with the reader - that Woolf managed to leave behind the realism of the 19th-century novel. Saloman draws on key theorists of the essay such as T. W. Adorno and Georg Lukács, as well as on more recent scholars of 'essayism' (a term de
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 'Here again is the usual door': the modernity of Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting'; Chapter 2 The common reader, or how should one read an essay?; Chapter 3 'Unsolved problems': essayism, counterfactuals, and the futures of A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas; Chapter 4 'Chasms in the continuity of our ways': from The Voyage Out to To the Lighthouse; Chapter 5 'I never felt it in the least about the others': the importance of Woolf's essay-novel; Bibliography; Index
