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Virginia Woolf's modernist path, her middle diaries & the diaries she read, Barbara Lounsberry

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Virginia Woolf's modernist path

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Barbara Lounsberry

her middle diaries & the diaries she read

"In 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 Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own. 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. Through 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. Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path offers a new approach to Woolf 's biography: her life as she marked it in her diary from ages 36 to 46." -- Publisher's description

Crisis calls for a new diary audience and purpose -- Virginia Woolf's second 1918 Hogarth House diary: July 27-November 12 -- Virginia Woolf's third 1918 Hogarth House diary: November 15, 1918-January 24, 1919 -- Virginia Woolf's 1919 diary -- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's diaries -- New diary realms: talk, the soul, and literature -- Virginia Woolf's 1920 diary -- W.N.P. Barbellion's journal of a disappointed man -- John Evelyn's diary -- Jealousy, illness, and diary rescue -- Virginia Woolf's 1921 diary -- Anton Chekhov's diary and notebooks -- Voice and motion -- Virginia Woolf's 1922 diary -- Alie Badenhorst's Boer War diary -- Virginia Woolf's 1923 diary -- James Boswell's journal of a tour to Corsica -- Spare, modernist perfection -- Virginia Woolf's 1924 diary -- Anne Chalmers' journals -- Stendhal's early journals -- Lady Anne Clifford's diary -- Rush, urgency, wound, and rescue -- Virginia Woolf's 1925 diary -- Jonathan Swift's journal to Stella -- Renewed diary experiment: the reach for literature and beyond -- Virginia Woolf's 1926 diary -- The diaries of Beatrice Webb -- The journals of Thomas Cobden-Sanderson -- Benjamin Robert Haydon's journals -- The loose-leaf diary -- Virginia Woolf's 1927 diary -- Katherine Mansfield's 1927 journal -- Artist at a crossroads -- Virginia Woolf's 1928 diary -- Virginia Woolf's first 1929 diary