{"product_id":"virginia-woolf-the-common-ground-essays","title":"Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground : Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eEminent feminist critic Gillian Beers work on Woolf  George Eliot  and Victorian scientific discourse are well known and admired. As the essays in this collection affirm  Beer has an extraordinary command of British cultural history  a talent for interpretative prose  and a gift for pursuing genuinely rewarding questions. In Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground  Beers essays on Woolf are brought together for the first time in a single volume. Through her close investigative textual readings  she demonstrates how Woolfs conceptualizations of history and narrative are intimately bound up with her ways of thinking about women  writing  and social and sexual relations. This is demonstrated through precise  detailed configurations  setting Woolf alongside texts both contemporary and distant  scientific and literary  with the effect that Woolfs writing is illuminated in entirely new and unexpected contexts. Beers introduction pulls together the critical themes of her work  and renders Woolf accessible to the large audience of scholars interested in English Literature as well as womens writing. \"In a field that has more than its share of trendy  jargon-ridden  reductive appropriations of Woolfs texts for various easily attainable ends  Beer is a reader who honors the complexities of Woolfs texts while illuminating them; she refuses over and over again to resolve the complex into the simple  to tidy up the contradictions of a given text.\" --John Whittier-Ferguson  University of Michigan Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President  Clare Hall at University of Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974629650485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0472084631","price":94.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780472084630.jpg?v=1770666440","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/virginia-woolf-the-common-ground-essays","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}