Virginia woolf and musicnet

These essays explore music and its relationship to language aesthetics and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando A Room of One s Own and other works Approaching Woolf from musicology literary criticism and gender studies the collection examines her musical background music in her fiction and critical writings and the importance of music in the Bloomsbury milieu and its role within the larger framework of Modernism Making use of Woolf s diaries letters fiction and the testimony of her contemporaries these essays illuminate the rich and deeply musical nature of Woolf s works Virginia Woolf and Music