{"product_id":"virginia-woolfs-modernist-path-her-middle-diaries-and-the-diaries-she-read-paperback","title":"Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Lounsberry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist \"golden age.\" During these interwar years, Woolf penned many of her most famous works, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e. Lounsberry shows how Woolf's writing at this time was influenced by other diarists--Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Jonathan Swift, and Stendhal among them--and how she continued to use her diaries as a way to experiment with form and as a practice ground for her evolving modernist style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of Woolf 's journaling style and an examination of the diaries she read, Lounsberry tracks Woolf 's development as a writer and unearths new connections between her professional writing, personal writing, and the diaries she was reading at the time. \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf's Modernist Path\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Lounsberry\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of English at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e and is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWriting Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130597707911,"sku":"9780813064307","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4d3f3832bd2ffa8891d0a1844de67096.webp?v=1732612196","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/virginia-woolfs-modernist-path-her-middle-diaries-and-the-diaries-she-read-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}