TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alt,Christina
TI  - Virginia Woolf and the study of nature
SN  - 9780521196550 (hbk.)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, UK.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Woolf, Virginia,
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Life sciences in literature
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature and science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  -