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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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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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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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It is a fine book. All the essays are lucidly written, and most have something new and suggestive to offer.
