Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Listen again to Dr John McKay's recent University of York lecture about Virginia Woolf.
Virginia Woolf is one of the most important writers of the early twentieth century and yet she is often thought of as a complex and difficult author.
This lecture is designed to give an introductory overview of Virginia Woolf's life and work and take the fear out of her work. It will contextualise her writing against her contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot and Katherine Mansfield and the historical backdrop while introducing themes such as feminism, modernism and narrative technique.