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James Acheson presents a vibrant collection of brand new essays on Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse'. A team of leading scholars provide stimulating re-assessments and fresh critical perspectives on these two major works of British fiction.
Virginia Woolf
by Acheson, JamesFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2016-12-02
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
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
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