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Author: Judith Allen (Leader of the Virginia Woolf Discussion Group, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.224kg
ISBN: 9780748664856
ISBN 10: 0748664858
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 25 September 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
<p>A thoughtful and provocative book which ranges widely across Virginia Woolf's work, paying particular attention to her essays and to her essayistic writings.... Allen's book is a timely and welcome addition to Woolf scholarship and to a growing body of work on the essay itself.--Randi Saloman Woolf Studies Annual (01/01/0001)
"A passionate, political and provocative study.--Patricia Clements, Professor emeritus, University of Alberta, and founding director of The Orlando Project Guided by Montaigne's trenchant question, 'What do I know?', Judith Allen shows how the lexicon of war in the twenty-first century can be revealed in all its lamentable 'truthiness' by paying attention to what Virginia Woolf's essays have to say about the power of language to transform our world. This is a book that makes refreshingly clear Woolf's deep political engagement with the urgent issues of war and peace.--Mark Hussey, Editor, Woolf Studies Annual The distillation of many years of sparklingly erudite scholarship and continuing incisive debate, Judith Allen's book is essential reading for anyone concerned by current and disturbing ramifications of the politics of language and the language of politics in the modern world. She provides a generously open guide to many of Woolf's most influential essays as well as to her major manifestos, ""A Room of One's Own"" and ""Three Guineas"".--Dr. Jane Goldman, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK A thoughtful and provocative book which ranges widely across Virginia Woolf's work, paying particular attention to her essays and to her ""essayistic"" writings.... Allen's book is a timely and welcome addition to Woolf scholarship and to a growing body of work on the essay itself.--Randi Saloman""Woolf Studies Annual"" (01/01/0001)"
<p>Guided by Montaigne's trenchant question, 'What do I know?', Judith Allen shows how the lexicon of war in the twenty-first century can be revealed in all its lamentable 'truthiness' by paying attention to what Virginia Woolf's essays have to say about the power of language to transform our world. This is a book that makes refreshingly clear Woolf's deep political engagement with the urgent issues of war and peace.--Mark Hussey, Editor, Woolf Studies Annual
Author Information
Judith Allen leads the Virginia Woolf Discussion Group at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written on James Joyce, Michel de Montaigne, and Virginia Woolf, and has done editorial work and book reviews for Journal of Modern Literature, Woolf Studies Annual, and The Virginia Woolf Miscellany.
