Virginia Woolf
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
It is a fine book. All the essays are lucidly written, and most have something new and suggestive to offer. * Rachel Bowlby, TLS *More details
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Person
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.
Content
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.