Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history. In this innovative study, Elena Gualtieri analyses in detail the intersection between essays and sketches in Woolf's non-fiction as part of a far-reaching argument about the scopes and models of feminist criticism, its understanding of the historical process and its position in the panorama of twentieth-century intellectual history.

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Elena Gualtieri is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex.

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Virginia Woolf, European Essayist Eccentric Histories The Essay as Form Professing Literature Sketching the Past, or the Fictions of Autobiography Images of History Postscript: Angels and Harpies Bibliography Index