Virginia Woolf

ISBN-13: 9781137430816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 213 str.

James Acheson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.