Reading Virginia Woolf

Julia Briggs

The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolfs writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolfs work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story The Symbol and from the most to the least familiar of her novels.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: ‘Such Absences!’
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1 - Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: or, Her Silence on Master William
pp 8-24
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2 - ‘The Proper Writing of Lives’: Biography versus Fiction in Woolf's Early Work
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3 - Night and Day: The Marriage of Dreams and Realities
pp 42-62
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4 - Reading People, Reading Texts: ‘Byron and Mr Briggs’
pp 63-79
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5 - ‘Modernism's Lost Hope’: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the Printing of Paris
pp 80-95
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6 - The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction
pp 96-112
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7 - The Search for Form (ii): Revision and the Numbers of Time
pp 113-124
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8 - ‘This Moment I Stand On’: Virginia Woolf and the Spaces in Time
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9 - ‘Like a Shell on a Sandhill’: Woolf's Images of Emptiness
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10 - Constantinople: At the Crossroads of the Imagination
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11 - The Conversation behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable
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12 - ‘Sudden Intensities’: Frame and Focus in Woolf's Later Short Stories
pp 172-189
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13 - ‘Almost Ashamed of England Being so English’: Woolf and Ideas of Englishness
pp 190-207
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14 - Between the Texts: Woolf's Acts of Revision
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-ix

Abbreviations
pp x-xii

Introduction: ‘Such Absences!’
pp 1-7

1 - Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: or, Her Silence on Master William
pp 8-24

2 - ‘The Proper Writing of Lives’: Biography versus Fiction in Woolf's Early Work
pp 25-41

3 - Night and Day: The Marriage of Dreams and Realities
pp 42-62

4 - Reading People, Reading Texts: ‘Byron and Mr Briggs’
pp 63-79

5 - ‘Modernism's Lost Hope’: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the Printing of Paris
pp 80-95

6 - The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction
pp 96-112

7 - The Search for Form (ii): Revision and the Numbers of Time
pp 113-124

8 - ‘This Moment I Stand On’: Virginia Woolf and the Spaces in Time
pp 125-140

9 - ‘Like a Shell on a Sandhill’: Woolf's Images of Emptiness
pp 141-151

10 - Constantinople: At the Crossroads of the Imagination
pp 152-161

11 - The Conversation behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable
pp 162-171

12 - ‘Sudden Intensities’: Frame and Focus in Woolf's Later Short Stories
pp 172-189

13 - ‘Almost Ashamed of England Being so English’: Woolf and Ideas of Englishness
pp 190-207

14 - Between the Texts: Woolf's Acts of Revision
pp 208-230

Index
pp 231-236

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