Criticism on To the Lighthouse A Selected Bibliography by Elisa Kay Sparks March 2000  Arranged in reverse chronological order, starting with most recent   Books & Anthologies |  History of Criticism |  Articles & Chapters in Books

Books and Anthologies
 

• Daugherty, Beth Rigel (ed. and introd.),  Pringle, Mary Beth (ed. and introd.) Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse. New York, NY : Modern Language Association of America, 2001.

 
• Goldman,-Jane (ed.) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, The Waves. New York, NY : Columbia UP, 1998.

 

 

• Reid, Sue, ed. Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.PR6045.O72 M736 1993

 

• Raitt, Suzanne. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.

• Bloom, Harold, ed. Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse. New York : Chelsea House, 1988.

• Kelley, Alice van Buren. To the lighthouse : the marriage of life and art. Boston, Mass. : Twayne Publishers, c1987.
 
• Vogler, Thomas A., ed. Twentieth century interpretations of To the lighthouse; a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1970.

• Beja, Morris. Virginia Woolf: To the lighthouse; a casebook. London, Macmillan, 1970.

• Leaska, Mitchell A.   Virginia Woolf’s Lighthouse: A Study in Critical Method. London: The Hogarth Press, 1970

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Articles on the History of Criticism about TTL

• Goldman,-Jane (ed.) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, The Waves. New York, NY : Columbia UP, 1998.

 

• Raitt, Suzanne, "Critical Reception of the Text." in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1990): 10-28.

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Articles and Chapters in Books
 

• Forbes, Shannon. "When Sometimes She Imagined Herself Like Her Mother": The Contrasting Responses Of Cam And Mrs. Ramsay To The Role Of The Angel In The House. Studies in the Novel, 32.4  (Winter 2000): 464  FF.

 
• Stewart, Jack. “A 'Need of Distance and Blue': Space, Color, and Creativity in To the Lighthouse.”  Twentieth Century Literature  46.1 (2000 Spring): 78-99.

 
• Tickner, Lisa.  “Vanessa Bell: Studland Beach, Domesticity, and 'Significant Form'.” Representations  65 (1999 Winter): 63-92.

 
• Goldman, Jane. "Artist and Feminist Communities of 1910: Post-Impressionism, Suffrage Aesthetics, and Intersubjectivity in To the Lighthouse."  259-68 IN McVicker, Jeanette (ed. and note); Davis, Laura (ed. and note); Johnston, Georgia (introd.). Virginia Woolf and Communities: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Saint Louis University, SaintLouis, Missouri, June 4-7, 1998. New York, NY : Pace UP, 1999.

 

• Levenback, Karen L. Virginia Woolf and the Great War. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse UP, 1998.

 
• Winston, Janet.  “Something Out of Harmony: To the Lighthouse and the Subject(s) of Empire.” Woolf Studies Annual 2 (1996): 39-70.

 

• Gough, Val. "With Some Irony in Her Interrogation': Woolf's Ironic Mysticism." 85-90 IN Gillespie Diane F. (ed.); Hankins Leslie K. (ed.). Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Clemson University, June13-16, 1996.. New York, NY : Pace UP, 1997.

 

• Nussbaum, Martha C. "The Window: Knowledge of Other Minds in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse." New Literary History 1995 Fall, 26:4, 731-53

 

• Smith, Susan Bennett. "Reinventing Grief Work: Virginia Woolf's Feminist Representations of Mourning in Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse." Twentieth Century Literature: 1995 Winter, 41:4, 310-27.

 

• Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. "What Is the Meaning of the Play? Virginia Woolf and the History of the Future." Chapter 1 of Letters from the Front, Vol III of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (1994); esp. 28-39 on TTL.

 

• Hanson, Clare. Chapter 4 of Virginia Woolf [Women Writers] (1994): pp. 111-25.

 

• Tyler, Lisa. "Mother Daughter Passion and Rapture: The Demeter Myth in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing." 73-91 IN Saxton Ruth (ed.); Tobin Jean (ed.). Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold. New York : St. Martin's, 1994. (Garden)PR888.W6 W66 1994

 

• Pringle, Mary Beth. "Killing the House of the Angel: Spatial Poetics in Woolf's To the Lighthouse." 306-12 IN Hussey Mark (ed.); Neverow Vara (ed.); Lilienfeld Jane (introd.). Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives: Sel. Papers from the Third Annual Conf. on Virginia Woolf, Lincoln Univ., Jefferson City, MO, June 10-13, 1993. New York : Pace UP, 1994.

 

• Barr, Tina. "Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey Towards Eleusis in To the Lighthouse." Boundary 2 20.1 (1993): 125-46. (Jungian, archetypal)AP2 .B8

 

• Caramagno, Thomas, "'It is finished': Ambivalence Resolved, Self Restored in To the Lighthouse, Chapter 10 of The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness (1992): pp. 244-69.

 

• Abel, Elizabeth, Chapters 3-4 of Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (1989): pp. 45-83. (R)

 
• Flint, Kate.  “Virginia Woolf and the General Strike.”  Essays in Criticism 36 (1986): 319-34.

 

• Rosenman, Ellen. Chapter 5 of The Invisible Presence (1986), 93-113. (R)

 

• Zwerdling, Alex. Chapter 6 and 7 of Virginia Woolf and the Real World (1986): (144-79) 180-209.

 

• Stewart, Jack. "Colour in To the Lighthouse," Twentieth-Century Literature 31 (1985): 438-58.

 

• Beer, Gillian. "Hume, Stephen, and Elegy in To the Lighthouse." Essays in Criticism 34 (1984), 33-55.

 

• Spivak, Gayatri. "Unmaking and Making in To the Lighthouse." In Women and Language in Literature and Society, ed. Sally Mc Connell-Ginet et al. (1980): 310-27.

 

• Lillienfield, Jane. "The Deceptiveness of Beauty: Mother Love and Mother Hate in To the Lighthouse." Twentieth-Century Literature 23 (19770, 345-76.  PN2 .T97

 

• Hartman, Geoffrey. "Virginia's Web." Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-1970. Yale UP, 1970.

 

• Blotner, Joseph. "Mythic Patterns in to the Lighthouse." PMLA 71 (1956), 547-62.