英国剑桥大学出版社最新出版的文学导读系列丛书之一。全书由作者生平、创作背景、文学作品和接受情况四个部分组成，全面系统地介绍了现代英国著名女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的创作经历、美学思想、艺术特征和文学成就。伍尔夫是现代英国文学史上出类拔萃的女作家，也是意识流小说的重要代表。她的作品已经成为国内外大学本科与研究生文学课程的必读教材，同时也为我国学者提供了非常丰富的学术资源。 目录 Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1 Life 1882-1909 The 1910s The 1920s 1930-1941 Chapter 2 Contexts Biographies Bloomsbury Wider historical and political contexts Modern and contemporary cultural contexts Chapter 3 Works Woolf's fiction Woolf's nonfiction Other essays Chapter 4 Critical reception Introductory reading Critical reception Contemporary reviews and the 1940s:innovation, experimentalism, impressionism The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy,psychology, myth The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny,modernism, aesthetics The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism,sexual/textual politics The 1990s to the present: feminism,historicism, postcolonialism, ethics Notes Guide to further reading Index