Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read, (Hardcover)

<b>Choice Outstanding Academic Title</b> <p>In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist "golden age." During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including <i>Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando</i>, and <i>A Room of One's Own</i>. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style.</p><p>Through close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. <i>Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path</i> offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.</p>

• Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read, (Hardcover)
• Author: Barbara Lounsberry
• ISBN: 9780813062952
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2016-11-08
• Page Count: 288