Routledge Revivals: Arguing with the Past 1989: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney Beer Gillian
Routledge Revivals: Arguing with the Past 1989: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney Beer Gillian First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range…
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Routledge Revivals: Arguing with the Past 1989: Essays in Narrative from Woolf to Sidney Beer Gillian
First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Three chapters on Virginia Woolf demonstrate how Woolf's reading of past literature, philosophy, and science gave her an intellectual and emotional purchase on problems of feminism and modernism. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot.
Beer examines how writers create dialogues with past writing, how readers of the present day engage with the difference of past literature, and how we make contact with the desires and debates of past readers.