The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Sue Roe’s preface claims that “all the chapters in this book have been commissioned with the intention of reflecting the broad range of Virginia Woolf’s concerns as a writer and thinker”. Taken together, the original essays in this volume achieve this task well, introducing and illuminating the complexities of Virginia Woolf’s work as well as those of the body of criticism on her writings that has developed since the 1970s. More than that, they convey the fascination and pleasure of reading her fiction and nonfiction in intellectually‐challenging essays, whose prose is accessible to most undergraduate students. This book will also...