Virginia Woolf A Collection of Critical Essays

by Homans, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780139532092
• ISBN10: 0139532099
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-19
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Each volume captures and makes accessible the most stimulating critical writing of our time on crucial literary figures of the past and present. Also included in each is an introduction to the author's life and work, a chronology of important dates, and a selected bibliography.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Characters and Human Experience

The Brown Stocking

Virginia's Web

Virginia Woolf: A Personal Debt

The Loudspeaker and the Human Voice: Politics and the Form of The Years

Jacob's Room: Woolf's Satiric Elegy

Narrative Structure(s) and Female Development: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway

Modifications of Romance in Woolf

Out of the Chrysalis: Female Initiation and Female Authority in Virginia Woolf'sThe Voyage Out

Introduction,fromThe Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Wolf's Novels

The Trained Mind: A Room of One's Own

The Darkest Plots: Narration and Compulsory Heterosexuality

The Authority of Illusion: Feminism and Fascism in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts

Britannia Rules the Waves

Chronology of Important Dates

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

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