Author: Beer, Gillian
Paperback
Published: January 1997
University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472084631

Eminent feminist critic Gillian Beer has an extraordinary command of British cultural history, a talent for interpretive prose, and a gift for pursuing genuinely rewarding questions. In this new book, her essays on Woolf are brought together for the first time in a single volume. Through her close investigative textual readings, she demonstrates how Woolf's conceptualizations of historyand narrative are intimately bound up with her ways of thinking about women, writing, and social and sexual relations.... Beer is a reader who honors the complexities of Woolf's 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