Virginia Woolf

This course (an advanced graduate-level version of a course that I have been teaching for many years to undergraduates) will focus on six novels and one non-fictional book by Virginia Woolf. It will explore multiple questions that are essential to literary study, e.g.: What does it mean to study a single author’s work in chronological sequence, finding both consistency and change? How does an author’s work change over the course of her career in response to larger historical and cultural changes? How does an author decide the course of her career in response to critical responses at the time? In addition, thecourse will also focus in detail on the inner logic and coherence of each of the books on the syllabus.