![]() ![]() With an emphasis on its potential to mediate between textual and cultural criticism, Wood adapts the methodology of genetic criticism to examine an extensive gathering of sources, ranging from Woolf's reading notes, research scrapbooks, holograph and typescript drafts, manuscripts, and proofs to her diaries, essays, and correspondence. ![]() ![]() For Wood, genetic criticism not only provides a means to investigate the under-studied pre-publication materials of Woolf's late works, but also calls for engagement with the historical and socio-cultural circumstances that shaped their composition. Alice Wood's Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of ‘The Years’, ‘Three Guineas’ and ‘Between the Acts’ takes afresh approach to Virginia Woolf's last three major works, synthesizing “feminist-historicist” analysis with genetic criticism. ![]()
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