Christina Alt

Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Virginia Woolf's interest and understanding of natural history and how it is reflected in her works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521196550
• ISBN-10: 0521196558
• Artikelnr.: 29601323

Autorenporträt

Christina Alt is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. She has contributed to numerous collections on the work of Virginia Woolf.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The natural history tradition
2. The modern life sciences
3. 'To pin through the body with a name': Virginia Woolf and the taxonomic tradition
4. Laboratory coats and field glasses: Virginia Woolf and the modern study of nature
5. Representing 'the manner of our seeing': literary experimentation and scientific analogy
Bibliography
Notes.