In A Room of One's Own (1929), Virginia Woolf subversively urges that "we think back through our mothers if we are women" (132); this radical belief which was uncommon in Woolf's time turned out to be her lifelong commitment in her literary life, and which formulated a new form of intellectualism. This book explores Woolf's radical argument in locating subjectivity in relation to desire: the desire to return to the lost mother, whose absence is the source and initiator of all speech and writing. In my exploration of the ways in which desire informs textuality, I will focus on Woolf's Mrs...
In A Room of One's Own (1929), Virginia Woolf subversively urges that "we think back through our mothers if we are women" (132); this radical belief w...
