Overview

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century. The collection also looks at some of Woolf's own essays, discussing her theory of fiction and devotion to 'stream of consciousness' writing. Its thirteen contributors place this discussion of Woolf's artistic theory and practice within the context of her association with the Bloomsbury Group and her interest in spirituality, feminism, homosexuality, pacifism and psychoanalysis.

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Author:   James Acheson (Christchurch)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781137430823

ISBN 10:   1137430826
Pages:   213
Publication Date:   02 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; James Acheson 1. Mind-wandering and Mindfulness: A Cognitive Approach to Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Melba Cuddy-Keane 2. Spirituality in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Heather Ingman 3. Victorian Roots: The Sense of the Past in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Kate Flint 4. Modernism and Bloomsbury Aesthetics; Gabrielle McIntire 5. 'Women Can't Write, Women Can't Paint': Art and the Artist in To the Lighthouse; Bonnie Kime Scott 6. On the Death of the Soul: a Jungian Reading of Mrs. Dalloway; Katherine Tarbox 7. On Not Being Able to Paint: To the Lighthouse via Psychoanalysis; Maud Ellmann 8. Mrs. Dalloway and the War that Wouldn't End; Brian Finney 9. Mrs. Dalloway and the Reinvention of the Novel; Porter Abbott 10. Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse: The Novel as Elegy; Daniel Bedggood 11. What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know: Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s; Patricia Moran 12. The Warp and the Weft: Homoeroticism in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Diana L. Swanson 13. The Cambridge Woolf; Jane Goldman and E.H. Wright Further Reading Index.

Reviews

It is a fine book. All the essays are lucidly written, and most have something new and suggestive to offer. * Rachel Bowlby, TLS *

Author Information

James Acheson is former Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His previous publications include a volume on John Fowles in the New Casebooks series.

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