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082			_a823.912 _bALT/V
100			_aAlt, Christina
245	1	0	_aVirginia Woolf and the study of nature
260			_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press _c2010
300			_a229p.
520			_aReflecting 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.
650			_aWoolf, Virginia-Criticism and interpretation
650	0		_aLiterature and science-Great Britain-History
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