The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

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Edited by Sue Roe and Susan Sellers

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published June 2000, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0521625483

This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses the full range of Woolf's intellectual perspectives--literary, artistic, philosophical and political. The volume provides original, new readings of all nine novels and fresh insights into Woolf's letters, diaries, and essays. The progress of Woolf's thinking is revealed from Bloomsbury aestheticism through her hatred of censorship, corruption and hierarchy to her concern with all aspects of modernism.

Contributors: Andrew McNeillie, David Bradshaw, Sue Roe, Laura Marcus, Susan Sellers, Nicole Ward Jouve, Hermione Lee, Michael Whitworth, Maria DiBattista, Suzanne Raitt, Susan Dick, Julia Briggs

Contents

Chronology
1. Bloomsbury--Andrew McNeillie
2. The socio-political vision of the novel--David Bradshaw
3. The impact of post impressionism--Sue Roe
4. Woolf and feminism--Laura Marcus
5. Virginia Woolf's diaries and letters--Susan Sellers
6. Virginia Woolf and psychoanalysis--Nicole Ward Jouve
7. Virginia Woolf's essays--Hermione Lee
8. Virginia Woolf and modernism--Michael Whitworth
9. Virginia Woolf and the language of authorship--Maria DiBattista
10. Finding a voice: Virginia Woolf's early novels--Suzanne Raitt
11. Literary realism in Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves--Susan Dick
12. The novels of the 1930s and the impact of history--Julia Briggs