Virginia Woolf : Lesbian Readings

The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions asThe New York Review of Booksnow 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 Readingsrepresents 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, includingOrlando, The Waves, andThe 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.

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction	p. 3
A Lesbian Reading Virginia Woolf	p. 10
The Pattern behind the Words	p. 21
"The Gift of a China Inkpot": Violet Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and the Love of Women in Writing	p. 37
Reading Influences: Homoeroticism and Mentoring in Katherine Mansfield's "Carnation" and Virginia Woolf's "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points'"	p. 57
Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein	p. 78
The Death of Sex and the Soul in Mrs. Dalloway and Nella Larsen's Passing	p. 95
Introduction	p. 117
"The Things People Don't Say": Lesbian Panic in The Voyage Out	p. 128
Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway	p. 146
Bringing Buried Things to Light: Homoerotic Alliances in To the Lighthouse	p. 165
Orlando: "A Precipice Marked V": Between "A Miracle of Discretion" and "Lovemaking Unbelievable: Indiscretions Incredible"	p. 180
Rhoda Submerged: Lesbian Suicide in The Waves	p. 203
"Pearls and the Porpoise": The Years - A Lesbian Memoir	p. 222
Entering a Lesbian Field of Vision: To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts	p. 241
Works Cited	p. 259
Index	p. 277
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