Virginia Woolf : : Lesbian Readings / / ed. by Eileen Barrett, Patricia Cramer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Tuzyline Jita,; Barrett, Eileen,; Bellamy, Suzanne,; Blackmer, Corinne E.,; Cramer, Patricia,; Hankins, Leslie Kathleen,; Lilienfeld, Jane,; McNaron, Toni A. H.,; Oxindine, Annette,; Smith, Patricia Juliana,; Vanita, Ruth,; Weil, Lise,; Winston, Janet,
• HerausgeberIn: Barrett, Eileen,; Cramer, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: The Cutting Edge ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART I. Lesbian Intersections -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. A Lesbian Reading Virginia Woolf -- THREE. The Pattern behind the Words -- FOUR. “The Gift of a China Inkpot” Violet Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and the Love of Women in Writing -- FIVE. Reading Influences Homoeroticism and Mentoring in Katherine Mansfield’s “Carnation” and Virginia Woolf’s “Moments of Being: ‘Slater’s Pins Have No Points’” -- SIX. Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein -- SEVEN. The Death of Sex and the Soul in Mrs. Dalloway and Nella Larsen’s Passing -- PART II. Lesbian Readings of Woolf’s Novels -- EIGHT. Introduction -- NINE. “The Things People Don’t Say” Lesbian Panic in The Voyage Out -- TEN. Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway -- ELEVEN. Bringing Buried Things to Light Homoerotic Alliances in To the Lighthouse -- TWELVE. Orlando: “A Precipice Marked V” Between “A Miracle of Discretion” and “Lovemaking Unbelievable: Indiscretions Incredible” -- THIRTEEN. Rhoda Submerged: Lesbian Suicide in The Waves -- FOURTEEN. “Pearls and the Porpoise”: The Years— A Lesbian Memoir -- FIFTEEN. Entering a Lesbian Field of Vision To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts -- Works Cited -- Index