VIRGINIA WOOLF & LIT ENGLISH REN C - Tapa dura

'a scholarly study ... Alice Fox's study deepens our knowledge and appreciation of Virginia Woolf's creative process.' Contemporary Review

'a scholarly study of the powerful influence which Renaissance literature and on the novels of Virginia Woolf ... Alice Fox's study deepens our knowledge and appreciation of Virginia Woolf's creative process.' Contemporary Review

'an illuminating study which will effect a significant shift in our understanding of Woolf's creative process' Clare Hanson, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, YES, 22, 1992

'Fox has performed heroic labours of scholarship' Makiko Minow-Pinkney, Journal of Gender studies, Volume 1 Number 2, November 1991

'Professor Fox does not deviate into psychoanalysis, or into Bloomian enquiry, but her material generates fascinating further questions in these areas. This is a richly rewarding account of the work.' Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading, Review of English Studies, Vol. 43, 5/92

This book examines the profound effect, on a major critic and novelist of the twentieth century, of the period of English literature's greatest glory, the Renaissance. Beginning in the sixteenth century with the poems and plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and with prose writings such as Hakluyt's Voyages, and continuing through the great lyric poets of the seventeenth century, the Renaissance influenced every aspect of Virginia Woolf's work. All her available writing - letters, diaries, reading-notes, drafts of essays, and novels, and feminist polemic - are explored in this illuminating study of Virginia Woolf's varied reactions to the period and its impact on her fiction and criticism. Each of the novels, in particular, is shown to integrate some element of Renaissance literature in its language, characterization, and often structure, enriching the fiction; thus this study deepens our understanding of Woolf's creative process, and our enjoyment of the works.