Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject : : Feminine Writing in the Major Novels / / Makiko Minow-Pinkney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Minow-Pinkney, Makiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing and the subject. In a series of subtle readings of five major novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves - closely informed by psychoanalytic theory, Makiko Minow-Pinkney presents Woolf as a committed feminist whose politics emerged as an aspect of her experimentation with language and form.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 Feminism and Modernism in Woolf -- CHAPTER 2 Jacob’s Room -- CHAPTER 3 Mrs. Dalloway -- CHAPTER 4 To the Lighthouse -- CHAPTER 5 Orlando -- CHAPTER 6 The Waves -- CONCLUSION A New Subjectivity -- Notes -- Index