Criticism & Background Materials

CRITICISM AND BACKGROUND MATERIALS

"As more and more work by her comes into print, we can see the enormous variety of her tones and voices, the width and sharpness of her attention, the spread of her powers, and the major part she played in conveying the modern spirit in the arts."

-–Malcolm Bradbury in The Modern World

INTRODUCTION: Documentary: "THE WAR WITHIN"

Biographical Sketches

Bloomsbury and Modernism

"SKETCH OF THE PAST"

Hermione Lee, Excerpts on Woolf and Freud from her Virginia Woolf

Sidonie Smith, "Identity's Body" (excerpt; from Autobiography and Postmodernism, ed. Kathleen Ashley et al.)

"SKETCH OF THE PAST" (cont.) + "22 Hyde Park Gate"; "Old Bloomsbury"

Alex Zwerdling, "Mastering the Memoir" (excerpt; from Modernism/Modernity 10.1, January 2003)

ESSAYS AND DIARIES
Hermione Lee, "Virginia Woolf's Essays" (from the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf)

Susan Sellers, "Virginia Woolf's Diaries and Letters" (from the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf)

MRS. DALLOWAY
Makiko Minow-Pinkney, MD chapter (from VW and the Problem of the Subject)

Linden Peach, "Mrs. Dalloway: National Conservatism and Conservative Nationalism" (from Virginia Woolf)
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Also recommended:
Roger Poole, "Was Septimus Smith Insane?" (from The Unknown Virginia Woolf )
Trudi Tate, "Mrs. Dalloway and the Armenian Question" (from Modernism, History, and the First World War)
Alex Zwerdling, "Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System" (from Virginia Woolf and the Real World
Hermione Lee, Excerpts from "Marriage" and "War" chapters in Virginia Woolf
Marlene A. Briggs, "Veterans and Civilians: Mediating Traumatic Knowledge in Mrs. Dalloway" (in VW and Communities)
Eileen Barrett, "Unmasking Lesbian Desire: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway" (in VW: Lesbian Readings)

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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Elizabeth Abel, Excerpt from "James and Cam" (from VW and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis)
Alex Zwerdling, Excerpt from "Domestic Politics in To the Lighthouse" (from VW and the Real World)
Student Paper
Melba Cuddy-Keane email commentary on TL ending (VW discussion group)

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Also recommended: Erich Auerbach, "The Brown Stocking" (from Mimesis)

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Recording of Penelope de la Porta reading selections from Room
Recording of Woolf reading passage from "Craftsmanship" (1937)
Excerpt from Ellen Rosenman's "A Room of One's Own": Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity
Excerpt from S.P. Rosenbaum's Women and Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of "A Room of One's Own"

THE WAVES
The Waves entry in Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf: A-Z

Makiko Minow-Pinkney, Excerpt on "The Waves" (from VW and the Problem of the Subject)
Jane Marcus, Excerpt from "Britannia Rules The Waves" (in Decolonizing Tradition)
Patrick McGee, Excerpt from "The Politics of Modernist Form: Or, Who Rules The Waves"? (MFS Autumn '92)

THREE GUINEAS
Three Guineas entry in Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf: A-Z

Excerpts on Three Guineas from Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf

BETWEEN THE ACTS

Linden Peach, "The Last Years: 'The Shooting Party' and Between the Acts" (from his Virginia Woolf)

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