Virginia Woolf’s early novels: Finding a voice (original) (raw)

Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels-challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligentremain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. This highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapter on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources. s u AN s ELLERS is Professor of Engli hand Related Literature at the University of St Andrews. With Jane Goldman, she is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf; he is also the author of Vanessa and Virginia (2008), a novel about Woolf and Vanessa Bell.