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The unknown Virginia Woolf / Roger Poole.
- Title
- The unknown Virginia Woolf / Roger Poole.
- Author
- Poole, Roger, 1939-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6045.O72 Z862 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxviii, 289 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Biographies
- 1900-1950
- 1850-1900
- 1900-1999
- History
- Psychoanalysis and literature > England
- Authors, English > 20th century > Biography
- Women authors, English > 20th century > Biography
- Women and literature > England > History > 20th century
- Feminism and literature > England > History > 20th century
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-286) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The unknown Virginia Woolf -- 1. 'Rosy-flowered fruit tree and beak of brass' -- 2. The body, the mirror, Gerald and George -- 3. The terrors of engagement -- 4. Full bellies, dull minds -- 5. 'What exactly do you mean by that?' -- 6. Leonard's three problems -- 7. The ordeal of 1912 -- 8. 'Butter, cream, and eggs and bacon' -- 9. Virginia's own view negated and disconfirmed -- 10. 'Taboo against eating -- guilt' -- 11. 'Conspiracy' -- 12. 'Forbade childbirth, penalised despair' -- 13. 'The birds talking Greek' -- 14. Was Septimus Smith 'insane'? -- 15. Virginia's embodiment -- 16. Fuhrer, Duce, Tyrant -- 17. Incompatibility -- 18. Octavia Wilberforce: 'oak and triple brass were around her breast' -- 19. Death by shrapnel or death by water.
- ISBN
- 0521484022 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^95020058^
- OCLC
- 32589103
- SCSB-11350525
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library