Virginia Woolf Emerging Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf Lincoln University, Jeffersn City, Mo Jun

by Hussey, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780944473177
• ISBN10: 0944473172
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-26
• Publisher: University Publishing Association

Table of Contents

Before the Deluge: Looking Back on the 3rd Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf	p. 7
From Solitude to Society through Reading Virginia Woolf	p. 13
How Virginia Woolf Brought Me Up	p. 19
Septimus and Shadrack: Woolf and Morrison Envision the Madness of War	p. 26
Woolf and Toni Morrison: Moments from the Critical Dialogue	p. 32
On Illness as Carnival: The Body as Discovery in Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill" and Mikhail Bakhtain's Rabelais and His World	p. 38
"All the gents, against me": Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, and the Sons of Educated Men	p. 44
What's Gender Got to Do With It?: Introducing Non-English Majors to Gendered Textuality	p. 52
A Room of One's Own as a Model of Composition Theory	p. 58
Substantial Men and Transparent Women: Issues of Solidity in Jacob's Room	p. 65
Virginia Woolf and Helene Cixous: Female Fantasy in Two of Woolf's Short Stories	p. 71
The Modernist Tease of Textual Intimacy and the Erotics of Reading in Woolf	p. 77
"Julia Kissed Her. Julia Possessed Her.": Considering Class and Lesbian Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction"	p. 83
Virginia Woolf and the Imperial Gaze: A Glance Askance	p. 91
De/Colonizing the Subject in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out: Rachel Vinrace as La Mysterique	p. 103
Narcissistic Desire in Orlando	p. 108
Why Do the Ramsays Have So Many Children?: Birth Control and To the Lighthouse	p. 115
Virginia Woolf Meets Audre Lorde at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd	p. 121
"Shining in the Dark": Jinny's Reign as Sun Goddess	p. 126
Imagining the Body: Gender Trouble and Bodily Limits in The Waves	p. 132
The Chameleon's Voice and Classical Structure in Three Guineas and A Room of One's Own	p. 140
Incest, Erasure, and The Years	p. 147
[The Critic] Can't Say That, Can She?: Naming Co-dependence and Family Dysfunction in To the Lighthouse	p. 151
Really Writing: Feminist Biography and the Languages of Pain in Louise DeSalvo's Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work	p. 156
Layered Rhythms Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison	p. 164
"Men must be Manly and Women Womanly": Influences of Woolf's Orlando on Anne Rice's The Witching Hour	p. 178
History through Metaphor: Woolf's Orlando and Byatt's Possession: A Romance	p. 182
How Vita Sackville-West Survived the Masterpiece Theatre Massacre	p. 189
Woolf's Secret Traitors to the Patriarchy	p. 192
Doodling Her Way to Insight: From Incompetent Student to Empowered Rhetor in A Room of One's Own	p. 197
Silver Spoons and Knives: Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin (some notes on a practical approach to cultural studies)	p. 204
Falling Through the Cone: The Shape of Mrs. Dalloway Makes Its Point	p. 210
The Mystical Copula: Rewriting the Phallus in To the Lighthouse	p. 216
Elizabeth Dalloway: Virginia Woolf's Forward Look at Feminism	p. 224
Virginia's Pages: Collecting Woolf's First Editions and Letters	p. 230
Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker: Family as Metaphor in the Personal Essay	p. 239
A Room, A Child, A Mind of One's Own: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker and Feminist Personal Criticism	p. 245
Excavating the Domestic Front in "Phyllis and Rosamond" and "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn"	p. 252
Woolf's Austen/Boston Tea Party: The Revolt Against Literary Empire in Night and Day	p. 259
The Art of Virginia Woolf's Diaries	p. 266
A Fish on the Line: Desire, Repression, and the Law of the Father	p. 272
Proportion is in the Mind of the Beholder: Mrs. Dalloway's Critique of Science	p. 278
The Waves: Publishing History and Literary Form	p. 282
Bastards from the Bush: Virginia Woolf and her Antipodean Relations	p. 289
"A Match Burning in a Crocus": Modernism, Feminism, and Feminine Experience in Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe	p. 296
The Murmur Behind the Current: Woolf and the Blues	p. 303
Killing the House of the Angel: Spatial Poetics in Woolf's To the Lighthouse	p. 306
Dislocating the Discourse of Modernism: the Examples of Woolf and Hurston	p. 313
Notes on Contributors	p. 319
Conference Program	p. 325
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