Virginia Woolf's
Major Novels
The Fables of Anon
Maria DiBattista
The distinctive approach taken in
this book resists the view of Woolf's
fiction as autobiographical fable and,
returning to Woolf's literary career,
treats generic'questions raised by the
novels themselves. DiBattista
assesses Woolf's claim to literary
ascendancy by locating her work
within the larger comic tradition of
English literature.
$
I7.50
The Absent Father
Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater
Perry Meisel
Opposing the view that as a modern and a feminist Virginia Woolf broke
cleanly with tradition, this book demonstrates the decisive, though repressed,
influence that Walter Pater had on her work in criticism as well as fiction.
This is the first systematic analysis of Pater's impact on any modern writer,
and the new approaches that it opens up will interest readers of both
Woolf and Pater. $19.50
**
Nominated for the I979 National Book Critics Circle Award
in Literature
'* '*
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar offer a bold new interpretation of the great
19th-century women novelists, and
in
doing so they present the first
persuasive case for the existence of a distinctly female imagination."
-Le
Anne Schreiber,
The New York Times Book Review
"Exciting ... elegant and vigorous."-Frances Taliaferro,
Harper's
"A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same
again."-Carolyn G. Heilbrun,
Washington Post Book World
Illus.
$25.
00
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
