Topics Open Seminar: Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a modernist novelist, an essayist, critic, feminist, pacifist, and public intellectual active in England during the first half of the 20th century. A contemporary of writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Nella Larsen, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, and William Faulkner, Woolf also was an important publisher of others' writing through the Hogarth Press, which she co-founded with her husband, Leonard, in 1917. The course will focus primarily on Woolf's fiction, but also on a selection of her essays and autobiographical writings.