{"product_id":"imagining-virginia-woolf-maria-dibattista-9780691138121","title":"Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--\u003ci\u003eImagining Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImagining Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria DiBattista\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691138125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2009 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009","brand":"Maria DiBattista","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47304771404031,"sku":"9780691138121","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43ab136c-10b7-40cc-a108-a91307855c9f.jpg?v=1758829119","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-virginia-woolf-maria-dibattista-9780691138121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}