Flush: A Biography (1933), Woolf's second radical experiment in biography (after Orlando: A Biography) was a runaway best-seller. This life of the pet spaniel of Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, playfully tests human-animal boundaries and speaks to rising concerns with class, sexuality and eugenics. This edition demonstrates Flush's historical grounding in the Brownings' era and Woolf's own. It provides rigorous, transparent collation of all extant states of Flush published in Woolf's lifetime. The extensive Explanatory Notes offer fresh insight into sociopolitical and literary contexts. This edition presents, for the first time, full transcriptions of Woolf's reading notebooks and drafts, plus the serialised Atlantic Monthly version. The Introduction maps composition history and draws on rediscovered early reviews. It charts Flush's critical reception to current renewed critical interest. This edition establishes Flush as a playfully ironic and seriously experimental work worthy of wide readership and sustained scholarly attention.
| ISBN: | 9780521878944 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2026 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 500 pages |
| Series: | The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Feminism and feminist theory Biography: writers Literary reference works |
Flush: A Biography (1933), Woolf's second radical experiment in biography (after Orlando: A Biography) was a runaway best-seller. This life of the pet spaniel of Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, playfully tests human-animal boundaries and speaks to rising concerns with class, sexuality and eugenics. This edition demonstrates Flush's historical grounding in the Brownings' era and Woolf's own. It provides rigorous, transparent collation of all extant states of Flush published in Woolf's lifetime. The extensive Explanatory Notes offer fresh insight into sociopolitical and literary contexts. This edition presents, for the first time, full transcriptions of Woolf's reading notebooks and drafts, plus the serialised Atlantic Monthly version. The Introduction maps composition history and draws on rediscovered early reviews. It charts Flush's critical reception to current renewed critical interest. This edition establishes Flush as a playfully ironic and seriously experimental work worthy of wide readership and sustained scholarly attention.
Flush features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: writers, Literary reference works
Flush is available in Hardback, Ebook, Paperback
Flush was written by Virginia Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press
Flush has 500 pages
Yes it is part of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf series
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