TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alt, Christina
TI  - Virginia Woolf and the study of nature
SN  - 9780521196550
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Woolf, Virginia-Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Literature and science-Great Britain-History
N2  - 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
ER  -