...Marina MacKay © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Marina MacKay is assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is writing a book about British modernism in the Second World War. Putting the House in Order: Virginia Woolf and Blitz Modernism...

... historical novel. Atkinson’s novels are often cited as examples of postmodern metafiction, but in fact her work is more directly indebted to modernist experiments in counterfactual historical writing by figures like Virginia Woolf. Moreover, this inheritance, inasmuch as it informs Atkinson’s focus...

..., familiar questions can yield unexpected answers, especially when an alert critic confronts the details of subtle texts, as Levenson often does here. An effect of anachronism is produced not because Levenson is unaware of all that has happened in fiction and theory since Virginia Woolf published...

... by tradition, some by revolutionary energy, now one, now the other gaining ascendency” (136).The question of who is giving weight to the rebellious or authorial voices is pressing because Pearce implicitly judges them on his own scale. Are not Joyce, Faulkner, and Woolf more “many-minded” and, as he...

..., and Women’s Culture, Browning, Eliot, New Woman authors of the 1890s,James, Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf and the Bloomsbury group. Taking a historicist approach, Luftig focuses on the use of “friendship” in discourse, as an idiom and as a narrative func- tion. Some of the most engaging material...

.... Eliot, and Matthew Arnold Donald J. Childs Feminists have long celebrated Virginia Woolf‘s observation in A Room of One’s Own that “we think back through our mothers if we are women Woolf can thus be situated as a precursor to contempo- rary feminisms that seek...

... throughout Eliot’s oeuvre” [72]; “Woolf’s fiction is strikingly atmospheric” [188]). To Taylor, it is not simply that there are both meteorological and literary atmospherics; it is also that to write of one kind of atmosphere is to grapple with the other. This is offered as a distinctive formal feature...

.... vii + 279 pp. $8.95. The Novels of Virginia Wooy Facl and Vision is valuable because it edges us closer to an understanding of Virginia Woolfs response to life. Alice van Buren Kelley draws on Wo.olf’s own use of the terms “fact” and “vision” and explores this dichotomy in her...

.... xii). He promises to examine the nine major “fictions” of Virginia Woolf from a variety of viewpointshistorical, biographical, mythic among them- and to explore genre, allusion, and imagery as they reveal the aesthetic merits of the works. This multidirectional attack explains both...

... a trinity, self-contained and self-sufficient and independent whether indoors or out?’ “ALONE SEEKING THE VISIBLE WORLD” THE WORDSWORTHS, VIRGINIA WOOLF, AND THE WAVES2...

...James Gindin Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 1 Pamela J. Transue. Virginia Woolfatid the Politics of Style . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. 222 pp. $39.50, cloth; $14.95, paper. Alex Zwerdlinc. Virginia Woolf and The Real World. Berkeley, Los...

... “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man”: A Casebook (forthcoming). His work in progress includes a study of British modernism and the new media. His essay “Killing Stevie: Modernity, Modernism, and Mastery in Conrad and Hitchcock”appeared in MLQ 58:3 (September 1997). The Woolfs in the Jungle...

... Novels: The Fables of Anon. The industry enables DiBattista to introduce her own particular perspective on Woolf while relying on her reader’s familiarity not only with the fiction but also with some amount of biography and a fairly sound appreciation of Woolf‘s in- terest in “literary succession...

...Merrill Turner Although Virginia Woolf’s critical writings pay special tribute to Anton Chekhov’s stories and plays, his role as preceptor in relation to her own fiction has not been fully explored. Not only does the manuscript of To the Lighthouse display clear affinities with Chekhov’s...

...Richard S. Lyons Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 THE INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S BET WEEN THE ACTS By RICHARDS. LYONS The turn of events that left Between the Acts as Virginia Woolfs last novel has laid...

...ANCA VLASOPOLOS Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 ∗ It is bad poetry which proclaims a definite belief—because it is a sin against sincerity. SHELLEY’S TRIUMPH OF DEATH IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S VOYAGE OUT...

...Nancy Topping Bazin Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 VIRGINIA WOOLF’S QUEST FOR EQUILIBRIUM By NANCYTOPPING BAZIN Virginia Woolf would agree with D. H. Lawrence that human beings have two ways of knowing, “knowing in terms...

...Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Abstract The Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscience , his most famous novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s...

...Henry Bosley Woolf Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN BEOWULF By HENRYBOSLEY WOOLF In the introduction to his edition of Beowlf Klaeber notes that our greatest Old English poem shows occasional “lack of concord...

...D. R. Woolf Patterson Annabel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xviii + 339 pp. $43.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews Reading Holinshed ’s “Chronicks.” By Annabel Patterson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xviii...