Virginia Woolf

by Acheson, James

• ISBN13: 9781137430823
• ISBN10: 1137430826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-12-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

James Acheson presents a vibrant collection of brand new essays on Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse'. A team of leading scholars provide stimulating re-assessments and fresh critical perspectives on these two major works of British fiction.

Author Biography

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.

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