"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night o[...]

A collection of twenty-nine of Virginia Woolf's essays. Widely considered one of the finest essayists of the 20th Century, she is also considered to be one of the greatest essay writers in the English language. Included here are all of her finest essays.[...]

With its publication in 1922, Virginia Woolf revolutionized the modern novel with Jacob's Room. Based on the life of her own brother, this unforgettable book chronicles the life and times of Jacob Flanders, from childhood to his death in World War I. An untraditional tale focusing on a flow of rando[...]

Since her death in 1941, Virginia Woolf has come to be recognized as one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century.In the thirty years between her marriage to Leonard Woolf in 1912 and her death, she wrote fifteen books, including the epochmaking novels To the Lighthouse and The Waves, a[...]

Alexandra Harris' hugely acclaimed book "Romantic Moderns" (winner of the 2010 "Guardian" First Book Award) overturned our picture of modernist culture during the interwar years. In this, her second book, she brings her attention to one of the towering figures of literary modernism. It is an intense[...]

In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian 'family romance[...]

In Virginia Woolf and the Visible World, Emily Dalgarno examines Woolf's engagement with notions of the subject and codes of the visible. Dalgarno examines how Woolf's writing engages with visible and non-visible realms of experience, and draws on ideas from the diverse fields of psychoanalytic theo[...]

This is the first detailed study of one of the most important plays in contemporary theatre, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. In this fascinating look at the modern stage, Stephen Bottoms draws on original archival material and sources including an exclusive interview with Edwa[...]

Jane Goldman offers a revisionary, feminist reading of Woolf?s work. Focusing on Woolf?s engagement with the artistic theories of her time, Goldman traces the feminist implication of her aesthetics by reclaiming for the everyday world of history and politics what seem to be private mystical moments.[...]

Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her deat[...]

Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to[...]

Daring . . . Vincent s psychological approach is intriguing. "USA Today" Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair. "New York Times Book Review" With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vin[...]