...Craig Smith Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 m Across the Widest Gulf: Nonhuman Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s Flush Craig Smith I n 1933 Virginia W oolf published Flush: A Biography, an experim ent in genre that purports to tell the life story o f Elizabeth...

... in the society at large to make Jews and Jewish traits more visible, a phenom enon referenced in W oolf’s use o f “Jewish” noses and other traits. This trend stemmed largely from fears about the increasing assimilation o f Jews into mainstream British culture and from...

... o f Lady B ruton to the Times, Virginia W oolf relates the small incident so that (here is Zunshine’s partial summary): “Richard suspects that Lady B ruton indeed believes that because, as Hugh says, the makers o f the pen think that it will never wear out, the editor o f the Times...

...-of Orlando in “The Journal of Mistress Joan Mar- tyn” (1906), “Memoirs of a Novelist” (1909), and “The Jessamy Brides” (1927) is therefore appropriate but incomplete (xi). While these three texts certainly contribute to the development ofW oolf’s art, I believe...

... RHETORIC AND THE SONOROUS ENVELOPE oolf establishes the South American colonial location in the novel through the use of a largely conventional and orthodox imperial rhetoric, conforming closely to aspects of the schematization formulated by David Spurr.8 The excursion to Monte Rosa...

... boasted numerous literary associations and a literary museum (Carlyle’s house), thus rivalingjohnson’s Fleet Street and Dickens’s Holborn as a center of literary and historic London. I have already suggested that W oolf s depiction of Rodney’s and the Hilberys’ museum homes evidences...

... associate, access to Melanie Klein’s unpublished work. Works cited Abel, Elizabeth. Virginia W oolf and the Fictions o f Psychoanalysis. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989. Bersani, Leo. The Culture o f Redem ption. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990. Caine, Barbara. “The Stracheys and Psychoanalysis...

... and alienation, intimacy and distance.3 While much of this work has explored important connections between Woolf’s political and ethical concerns, it too often fails to reckon with the most radical aspects of Levinas’s conception of the ethical encounter with the other.4 W oolf’s project...

... Churchill and Graham Greene have mentioned the importance o f Haggard’s Umslopogaas in their fantasy life as boys” (85). Kipling, perhaps, played an even greater role in conditioning Brit­ ish readers, as Leonard W oolf—w ho used to go riding w ith Forster on Putney Com m on— noted o...