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Orlando - A Biography (Paperback, Annotated edition): Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey Orlando - A Biography (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey; Introduction by Maria DiBattista
R478 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.
Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista

At Home in the World - Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present (Paperback): Maria DiBattista, Deborah Epstein... At Home in the World - Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present (Paperback)
Maria DiBattista, Deborah Epstein Nord
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A bold literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord show that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life. Exploring works by a wide range of writers, including canonical, neglected, and contemporary figures, this compelling and concise literary history uncovers the public concerns of women writers who ventured into ever-wider geographical, cultural, and political territories, forging new definitions of what it means to create a home in the world.

High and Low Moderns - Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (Hardcover, New): Maria DiBattista, Lucy McDiarmid High and Low Moderns - Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (Hardcover, New)
Maria DiBattista, Lucy McDiarmid
R4,975 Discovery Miles 49 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories. In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity. Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman," the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments--cinema, detective fiction, and journalism-- introduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.

At Home in the World - Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present (Hardcover): Maria DiBattista, Deborah Epstein... At Home in the World - Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present (Hardcover)
Maria DiBattista, Deborah Epstein Nord
R889 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R312 (35%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new, emancipatory narratives. The book explores works by a wide range of writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison; neglected or marginalized writers like Mary Antin, Tess Slesinger, and Martha Gellhorn; and recent and contemporary figures, including Nadine Gordimer, Anita Desai, Edwidge Danticat, and Jhumpa Lahiri. DiBattista and Nord show how these writers dramatize tensions between home and the wider world through recurrent themes of sailing forth, escape, exploration, dissent, and emigration. Throughout, the book uncovers the undervalued public concerns of women writers who ventured into ever-wider geographical, cultural, and political territories, forging new definitions of what it means to create a home in the world. The result is an enlightening reinterpretation of women's writing from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography (Hardcover): Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography (Hardcover)
Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman
R2,593 Discovery Miles 25 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Seventeen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives of life writings traditionally classified under the rubric of autobiography. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and are grouped to reflect changing views of the psychological status, representative character, and moral authority of the autobiographical text. The volume closes with a group portrait of late-modernist and contemporary autobiographies that, by blurring the dividing line between fiction and non-fiction, expand our understanding of the genre. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, the volume will appeal especially to students and teachers of non-fiction narrative, creative writing, and literature more broadly.

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography (Paperback): Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography (Paperback)
Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Seventeen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives of life writings traditionally classified under the rubric of autobiography. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and are grouped to reflect changing views of the psychological status, representative character, and moral authority of the autobiographical text. The volume closes with a group portrait of late-modernist and contemporary autobiographies that, by blurring the dividing line between fiction and non-fiction, expand our understanding of the genre. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, the volume will appeal especially to students and teachers of non-fiction narrative, creative writing, and literature more broadly.

Fast-Talking Dames (Paperback, New ed): Maria DiBattista Fast-Talking Dames (Paperback, New ed)
Maria DiBattista
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Witty and brash, the fast-talking dames in film comedies of the 1930s and 1940s offered moviegoers a new, independent version of American womanhood. In this volume, Maria DiBattista paints portraits of the grandest fast-talking dames of the era, including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne and Barbara Stanwyck, and discusses what their films had to say about men, happiness and the power of speech.

Modernism and Autobiography (Hardcover): Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman Modernism and Autobiography (Hardcover)
Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman
R2,819 Discovery Miles 28 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume offers seventeen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ancestry and tradition that foreground the modernists' troubled relation to their immediate familial as well as cultural past; their emergence as writers whose experiences found expression in untraditional and singular forms; their sense of themselves as survivors of personal and historical traumas; and their burdens as self-chroniclers of loss, especially of self-loss. It will appeal especially to scholars and students of literary modernism and English literature more generally.

Imagining Virginia Woolf - An Experiment in Critical Biography (Hardcover): Maria DiBattista Imagining Virginia Woolf - An Experiment in Critical Biography (Hardcover)
Maria DiBattista
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--"Imagining Virginia Woolf" asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote the novels, criticism, letters, and famous diary, but a different being altogether, someone or something Maria DiBattista identifies as "the figment of the author." This is the Virginia Woolf who lives intermittently in the pages of her writings and in the imagination of her readers. Drawing on Woolf's own extensive remarks on the pleasures and perils of reading, DiBattista argues that reading Woolf, in fact reading any author, involves an encounter with this imaginative figment, whose distinct, stylistic traits combine to produce that beguiling phantom--the literary personality.

DiBattista reveals a writer who possessed not a single personality, but a cluster of distinct, yet complementary identities: the Sibyl of Bloomsbury, the Author, the Critic, the World Writer, and the Adventurer, the last of which, DiBattista claims, unites them all.

"Imagining Virginia Woolf" provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers.

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