Maggie Humm – Snapshots

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Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Maggie Humm, University of East London) Humm, Maggie (Emeritus Professor

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This book principally coheres around a sense of women’s writing as inseparable from its cultural production. The multi-faceted essays here reveal how feminist criticism changed in one academic’s career from 1986 from the publication of her stellar work, Feminist Criticism. Snapshots discusses theories including ‘the anxiety of influence’, écriture feminine, postmodernism, life-writing all informed by a belief that subjectivity and creativity are integral to non-fiction writing. At the centre of these discussions is the work of Virginia Woolf, whose reputation and scholarly status are unique. The book maps Humm's writing on feminism, visual culture and twentieth-century women’s writing across forty transformative years of criticism.Readers and scholars will benefit from the book’s historical and theoretical range, as well as its autobiographical fragments. It demonstrates how feminists try always to be critically innovative, and the ways in which Maggie Humm's work has opened up new avenues into twentieth-century women’s writing, film and feminist criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFeminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor232
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399560979

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Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor whose work on Woolf includes Feminism and Film; Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema; Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell; The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts and The Bloomsbury Photographs. Her novel Talland House takes Lily Briscoe from To the Lighthouse, telling her life outside Woolf’s novel, and Lily solves the mystery of Mrs Ramsay’s sudden death. Among other prizes, the novel won ‘Women’s Fiction’ International Impact Awards. Radical Woman: Gwen John & Rodin, about the artist Gwen John’s affair with Rodin, was a finalist in the American Writing Awards and won the Bookfest Awards for Women’s Historical Fiction.

Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction: Snapshots of MemoryPart I. Feminism1. Feminist Literary Criticism2. Feminism in the Academy3. Foregrounding Women Writers: British Women Writers 1900 to the Present4. Writing across Borders5. From Essentialism to IntertextualityPart II. Virginia Woolf6. Linking Women through Time: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir and Maï Zetterling7. Photography, Gender and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Portraits’8. Postmodernism and Orlando9. The 1930s, Photography and Virginia Woolf’s Flush10. Woolf and the VisualAutobiography and a Final SnapshotIndex