CC115 Research Seminar Help Page: Virginia Woolf in the 1920s; Spring 2008

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Works by and about Virginia Woolf can be found on the 4th floor beginning with the call number PR6045 .O72. In addition to Woolf's novels and collections of essays, our collection includes her diaries, essays, letters, a number of biographies, and dozens of works of criticism.

Modern Critical Interpretations: To the Lighthouse PR 6045 .O72 T6867 1988
Modern Critical Interpretations: Mrs. Dalloway PR 6045 .O72 M738 1988
Twentieth Century Interpretations of To the Lighthouse PR 6045 .O72 T687
Modern Critical Views: Virginia Woolf PR 6045 .O72 Z8918 1986
Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage PR 6045 .O72 Z893

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Print -- Christopher Center Reference, 2nd floor

Key Resource: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) Ref. PN 771 .G27 TCLC presents criticism on major literary figures and nonfiction writers, it includes novelists, poets, playwrights, and literary theorists from 1900-1999.

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature 5v. Ref. PR 19 .O95 2006
Oxford Companion to English Literature Ref. PR 19 .O94 2000
Cambridge Guide to Literature in English Ref. PR 85 .C29 2006

Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950 Ref. PR 111 .E55 2006
Modern British Women Writers Ref. PR 116 .M63 2002

World Literature and Its Times, v. 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837- ) Ref. PR 471.M65 2001
The Facts on File Companion to the British Novel, v.2: 20th Century Ref. PR 821 .F2 2006
Notable British Novelists 3v. Ref. PR 821 .N57 2001

Virginia Woolf A to Z Ref. PR 6045 .O72 Z729 1995 (Circulating copy is located on the 4th floor)

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