Virginia Woolf

James Acheson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781137430823
• eBook ISBN: 9781350310568
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Mind-wandering and Mindfulness: A Cognitive Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
• 2 Spirituality in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
• 3 Victorian Roots: The Sense of the Past in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
• 4 Modernism and Bloomsbury Aesthetics
• 5 ‘Women Can’t Write, Women Can’t Paint’: Art and the Artist in To the Lighthouse
• 6 On the Death of the Soul: a Jungian Reading of Mrs. Dalloway
• 7 On Not Being Able to Paint: To the Lighthouse via Psychoanalysis
• 8 Mrs. Dalloway and the War that Wouldn’t End
• 9 Mrs. Dalloway and the Reinvention of the Novel
• 10 Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse: The Novel as Elegy
• 11 ‘What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know’: Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s
• 12 The Warp and the Weft: Homoeroticism in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
• 13 The Cambridge Woolf
• Further Reading
• Index