Virginia Woolf
Lesbian Readings
Published on 1. July 1997
277 pages
978-0-8147-3927-3 (ISBN)
Description
The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale.
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings represents the first book devoted to Woolf's lesbianism. Divided into two sections, Lesbian Intersections and Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels, these essays focus on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Lesbian Intersections includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels provides lesbian interpretations of the individual novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years.
Breaking new ground in our understanding of the role Woolf's love for women plays in her major writing, these essays shift the emphasis of lesbian interpretations from Woolf's life to her work.
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings represents the first book devoted to Woolf's lesbianism. Divided into two sections, Lesbian Intersections and Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels, these essays focus on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Lesbian Intersections includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels provides lesbian interpretations of the individual novels, including Orlando, The Waves, and The Years.
Breaking new ground in our understanding of the role Woolf's love for women plays in her major writing, these essays shift the emphasis of lesbian interpretations from Woolf's life to her work.
Reviews / Votes
"Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer have put together an excellent collection of original articles which demonstrates the range of lesbian literary scholarship as a field and the important nuance and insight it is contributing to our knowledge of Woolf's life and writing in particular." (Woolf Studies Annual)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8147-3927-3 (9780814739273)
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Persons
Eileen Barrett is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at California State University, Hayward.
Patricia Cramer is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
Patricia Cramer is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.
Content
- Intro
- Virginia Woolf
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- PART I Lesbian Intersections
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: A Lesbian Reading Virginia Woolf
- Chapter Three: The Pattern behind the Words
- Chapter Four: "The Gift of a China Inkpot" Violet Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and the Love of Women in Writing
- Chapter Five: Reading Influences Homoeroticism and Mentoring in Katherine Mansfield's "Carnation" and Virginia Woolf's "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points'"
- Chapter Six: Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein
- Chapter Seven: The Death of Sex and the Soul in Mrs. Dalloway and Nella Larsen's Passing
- PART II Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels
- Chapter Eight: Introduction
- Chapter Nine: "The Things People Don't Say" Lesbian Panic in The Voyage Out
- Chapter Ten: Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway
- Chapter Eleven: Bringing Buried Things to Light Homoerotic Alliances in To the Lighthouse
- Chapter Twelve: Orlando: "A Precipice Marked V" Between "A Miracle of Discretion" and "Lovemaking Unbelievable: Indiscretions Incredible"
- Chapter Thirteen: Rhoda Submerged: Lesbian Suicide in The Waves
- Chapter Fourteen: "Pearls and the Porpoise": The Years-A Lesbian Memoir
- Chapter Fifteen: Entering a Lesbian Field of Vision To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts
- Works Cited
- Index
