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

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 &am...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]
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Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Series:The Cutting Edge ; 21
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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