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Virginia Woolf's Essays

Sketching the Past

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  • © 2000

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  1. Elena Gualtieri
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Virginia Woolf, European Essayist

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 1-21

  3. Eccentric Histories

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 23-48

  4. The Essay as Form

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 49-68

  5. Professing Literature

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 69-92

  6. Sketching the Past, or the Fictions of Autobiography

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 93-115

  7. Images of History

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 116-145

  8. Postscript: Angels and Harpies

    • Elena Gualtieri
    Pages 146-150

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-176
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Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history. In this innovative study, Elena Gualtieri analyses in detail the intersection between essays and sketches in Woolf's non-fiction as part of a far-reaching argument about the scopes and models of feminist criticism, its understanding of the historical process and its position in the panorama of twentieth-century intellectual history.

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Elena Gualtieri is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex.

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