Virginia Woolf Reports


Early Short Stories | A Room of One's Own | Mrs. Dalloway | To the Lighthouse | The Waves | Between the Acts

Each participant should do six of these reports during the seminar (3 on Eliot; 3 on Woolf), writing a one-page summary to distribute to the rest of the seminar, preferably through e-mail.A PC-compatible electronic file must be sent or given to the teacher.)Some reports follow through a number of chapters in one book.One person cansign up for all chapters in a particular book.Repeating books are indicated by a * by the bullet.

This list is not complete.I have yet to update some sections and have to construct others.If you find an essay that you would rather report on, say one which is more relevant to your research, you may ask me to report on it.But be prepared to convince me that it is a really significant essay that other students need to know about.I also mean these lists to be helpful to you in research projects; I’m listing the essays I’ve found most interesting.

Day 3--Early Woolf Short Stories – Sept 10

• Baldwin, Dean. 13-26 in Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989)(R) TANYA

Day 5 -- Woolf, A Room of One's Own – Sept 14

• Allen,-Judith, "The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room's of One's Own." 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, Saint Louis, Missouri, June 4-7, 1998 289-96 
• Rosenman, Ellen. "A Reading." Chapters 5-10 of A Room of One's Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity [Twayne's Masterwork Series]. (1995): 29-116.
• Bowlby, Rachel. "The Trained Mind: A Room of One's Own," (1988) rpt. in Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Margaret Homans. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.174-95.  Not in CUL; get book from EKS
• Marcus, Jane. "Taking the Bull by the Udders: Sexual DIfference in Virginia Woolf -- A Conspiracy Theory." In Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriar­chy (1987): 136-62. (R)
• Marcus Jane. "Sapphistry: Narration as Lesbian Seduction in A Room of One's Own." (1983) Rpt. in Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriar­chy (1987): p­p. 163-87.(R)
• *Zwerdling, Alex. Chapters 8-9 of Virginia Woolf and the Real World (1986): 210-259. (R)
• Jones, Ellen Carol. "Androgynous Vision and Artistic Process in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own." In Critical Essays on Virginia Woolf, ed. Morris Beja (1985), 227-39. (R)
• Fox, Alice. "Literary Allusion as Feminist Criticism in  A Room of One's Own." Philological Quarterly (Spring 1984): 145-61.
• Showalter, Elaine. "Virginia Woolf's Flight from Androgyny." Last Chapter of A Literature of Their Own (1977). (R)

Day 7 -- Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway-- Oct. 8

• U Caramagno, Thomas, "'The sane & the insane, side by side': The Object-Rela­tions of Self-Management in Mrs. Dalloway, Chapter 9 of The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness (1992): pp. 210-243 

• *Rosenman, Ellen. Chapter 4 of The Invisible Presence (1986), 75-92. 
• *Zwerdling, Alex. "Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System." Chapter 5 of Virginia Woolf and the Real World (1986): 120-143. Also rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp.145-64.
•  Moore, Madeline.Chapter 3 of The Short Season Between Two Silences: THe Mysti­cal and the Polit­ical in the Novels of Virginia Woolf (1984): 59-92. 
• Able,Elizabeth, "Narrative Structure(s) and Female Development" (1983) rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 103-26. (R)
• J. Hillis Miller. "Mrs. Dalloway: Repetition as the Raising of the Dead."From Fiction and Repetition (1982).Rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpreta­tions: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 79-101. (R
• Mclarin, Allen, "The Symbolic Keyboard: Mrs. Dalloway."From VW: The Echoes Enslaved (1973).Rpt. in Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpreta­tions: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. (1988): pp. 5-14. (R)

Day 9 -- Woolf, To the Lighthouse – Oct. 15

• 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. (R)
• *Hanson, Clare.Chapter 4 of Virginia Woolf [Women Writers] (1994): pp. 111-25. (R)
• Barr, Tina."Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey Towards Eleusis in To the Lighthouse."Boundary 2 20.1 (1993): 125-46.

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

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Day 10 &11-- Woolf, The Waves – Oct. 29 and Nov. 11

• Graham, J. W. “Manuscript revision and the Heroic Theme of The Waves.”Twentieth Century Literature 29.3 (Fall 1983): 312-32.
• Flint. Kate.Introduction to The Waves.In Julia Briggs, ed. Virginia Woolf: Introductions to the Majote Works.London: Virago, 1994.
• Zeck, Jeanne Marie. “Shining in the Dark': Jinny's Reign as Sun Goddess.”126?31 IN Hussey Mark (ed.); Neverow Vara (ed.); Lilienfeld Jane (introd.). Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives: Sel. Papers from the Third Annual Conf. on Virginia Woolf, LincolnUniv., Jefferson City, MO, June 10?13, 1993.New York : Pace UP, 1994. 
• Marcus, Jane. “Britannia Rules The Waves.” 136-62 IN Lawrence Karen R. (ed. & introd.). Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth Century 'British'Literary Canon. Urbana : U of Illinois P, 1992. (EKS has)
• McGee, Patrick. “The Politics of Modernist Form; or, Who Rules The Waves.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 1992 Fall, 38:3, 631-50. 
• Also see Hussey and my Waves biblio

See Hussey-- TBA