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Article: Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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Holly Henry. Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 207. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81297-6.
In this thin but important volume, Holly Henry offers us another way of reading and appreciating Virginia Woolf, one of the acknowledged leaders of modernist literature. Woolf seems to be part of virtually every study on earth (feminism, war, and empire, to name just three)--the most recent bibliography of Woolf Studies listing sixteen (single-spaced) pages of works on or about her in the last year or two. However, Holly Henry's Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science leads us into yet ...