Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature

Reflecting the modernist fascination with science, Virginia Woolf's representations of nature are informed by a wide-ranging interest in contemporary developments in the life sciences. Christina Alt analyses Woolf's responses to disciplines ranging from taxonomy and the new biology of the laboratory to ethology and ecology and illustrates how Woolf drew on the methods and objectives of the contemporary life sciences to describe her own literary experiments. Through the examination of Woolf's engagement with shifting approaches to the study of nature, this work covers new ground in Woolf studies and makes an important contribution to the understanding of modernist exchanges between literature and science.

Author: Christina Alt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/08/2010
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521196550

About the Author
Alt, Christina: - Christina Alt is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. She has contributed to numerous collections on the work of Virginia Woolf.