Virginia Woolf

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Brown Stocking, Erich Auerbach 3. Virginia Woolf and English culture, Tony Inglis 4. Mirrors and Fragments, Francoise Defromont 5. Narrative structure(s) and female development - the case of "Mrs Dalloway", Elizabeth Abel 6. "The Third Stroke" - reading Woolf with Freud, Mary Jacobus 7. Tradition and revision in Woolf's "Orlando" - Defoe and "The Jessamy Brides", Susan M. Squier 8. The island and the aeroplane - the case of Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer 9. Woolf's room, our project - the building of feminist criticism, Catharine R. Stimpson 10. Penelope at work - interruptions in "A Room of One's Own", Peggy Kamuf Notes on authors Further Reading Index

About the author

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of English at University College London, UK.

Summary

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Bowlby
• Assisted by: Bowlby Rachel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138163300
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16330-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Longman Critical Readers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form