... Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95. In cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons, the trick is often to justify and...

... the public arena. Stephen Knadler, Spelman College 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 207 of 252 The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport...

... with Henry James and Virginia Woolf to explore the relation between mod- ernist fiction and twentieth-century politics. Beginning with an overview of ‘‘cosmopolitan communities Berman argues that the technical and episte- Tseng...

..., Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf) as well as lesser-known texts (the anonymous story “London’s Transformation” is particularly intriguing) to explore British ambivalence over Americanization. While British utopianists like Wells saw England’s “Ameritopian” future as a desirable move towards...

...- ture. Marianne DeKoven examines how Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf reconceptualized feminine interiority and its public literary presentation in spectacle and drama. Stevens reveals D. H. Lawrence’s use of primitive mas...

... Reviews 195 that within a narrative framework, both these elements may offer compensa- tion for and liberation from loss. Chapter 1 looks at Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing because, Rubenstein...

... summarized in Virginia Woolf’s critical dismissal: “we never wish to open them again” (28). Ward’s novels are among the first, if not the first, to explicitly depict shell shock. In so doing, they stabilize and shore up “normative English masculinity” (35) by contrasting the brave suffering of perceived real...

... female authors—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Virginia Woolf (only in her praise for Leo Tolstoy), and Gracie Allen (in a chapter titled “Stupidity Shines”)—receives substantive treatment from Morson, while Letzler’s chapter on Doris Lessing and Dorothy Richardson is highly partitioned from...

... Things is perhaps too breezy about its commitments, A Desire for Women is tire- less in its affirmation of ties between women as staged by twentieth-century women’s writing. Deploying literature for psychoanalysis, rather than the other way around, Juhasz mines works by Virginia Woolf, Marilyn Hacker...

... that were so often coopted into discourses of militarism and nationalism after the First World War. Essays consider the work of Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, Mina Loy, Federico García Lorca, Ford Madox Ford, William Faulkner, H.D., D. H. Lawrence, and others. An overview of “Modernism and...

... includes analyses of the works of Woolf, Joyce, and Stein. American Icon: Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” in Critical and Cultural Context. By Robert Beuka. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2011. x, 162 pp. $75.00. Beuka’s study invokes the cultural milieu of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, but...

....” Michigan Quarterly Review 22 , no. 1 : 130 – 42 . Perreault Jeanne . 1995 . Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autobiography . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Ratcliffe Krista . 1996 . Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf...

... and quasi-pedophilic relationship between the tutor and the student in Henry James’s The Pupil in chapter 1 and in her analysis in chapter 2 of how queer girls use dogs as a means to grow sideways in works by Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes). Chapters 3 and 4 take direction...

... the kind of book in which one refers lightly and gracefully to Woolf, Sartre, Sidney, Conan Doyle, Kant, George Eliot, Flaubert, David Mamet, and Dilthey in the space of six or seven pages, and introduces the...

..., and reflections on authors such as Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and Paule Marshall. ...

... Florida. 168 pp. 2006. $59.95. Rather than looking at marriage through the lens of form as modernist critics are apt to do, Pines treats marriage in literary modernism as a historical and deeply cultural institution. Looking at the marriage plots of novels by James, Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox...

... as national identity and political engagement and on formal features such as folkloric modernism and genre. Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson. By Andrea L. Harris. Albany: State Univ...

... their promise of an “enduring, universal” education, “civilizing to the mind and sensitizing to the spirit,” Rich ( 1979c , 133), following Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas , called for the more radical transformation of universities: “Today the question is no longer whether women (or non-whites) are...

... exploring such topographies, MacArthur traverses several geographic regions featured in the poets’ work, including San Francisco, New England, Key West, and Brazil. Brief Mention  217 Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill. By...

... includes Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, and Nathaniel West, Jacobs argues that these writers share a ‘‘di- minished faith’’ in vision and they ‘‘critique the forms of violence that vision inevitably seems to entail In narrating the situated or...