Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature

Virginia Woolf

Lesbian Readings

Plot

Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer have put together an excellent collection of original articles which demonstrates the range of lesbian literary scholarship as a field and the important nuance and insight it is contributing to our knowledge of Woolf's life and writing in particular.-Woolf Studies AnnualThe last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions asThe New York Review of Booksnow pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face is used to sell everything from Barnes & Noble books to Bass Ale.Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readingsrepresents the first book devoted to Woolf's lesbianism. Divided into two sections, Lesbian Intersections and Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels, these essays focus on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels. Lesbian Intersections includes personal narratives that trace the experience of reading Woolf through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Lesbian Readings of Woolf's Novels provides lesbian interpretations of the individual novels, includingOrlando, The Waves, andThe Years.Breaking new ground in our understanding of the role Woolf's love for women plays in her major writing, these essays shift the emphasis of lesbian interpretations from Woolf's life to her work.

Contents:
Indhold: Part I: lesbian intersections --
Lesbian Reading Virginia Woolf / Toni A.H. McNaron --
The Pattern behind the Words / Suzanne Bellamy --
"The Gift of a China Inkpot": Violet Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and the Love of Women in Writing / Jane Lilienfeld --
Reading Influences: Homoeroticism and Mentoring in Katherine Mansfield's "Carnation" and Virginia Woolf's "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have No Points'" / Janet Winston --
Lesbian Modernism in the Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein / Corinne E. Blackmer --
The Death of Sex and the Soul in Mrs --
Dalloway and Nella Larsen's Passing / Tuzyline Jita Allan --
Part II: Lesbian readings of Woolf's novels --
Introduction / Patricia Cramer --
"The Things People Don't Say": Lesbian Panic in The Voyage Out / Patricia Juliana Smith --
Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs --
Dalloway / Eileen Barrett --
Bringing Buried Things to Light: Homoerotic Alliances in To the Lighthouse / Ruth Vanita --
Orlando: "A Precipice Marked V": Between "A Miracle of Discretion" and "Lovemaking Unbelievable: Indiscretions Incredible" / Leslie Kathleen Hankins --
Rhoda Submerged: Lesbian Suicide in The Waves Annette Oxindine "Pearls and the Porpoise": The Years --
A Lesbian Memoir / Patricia Cramer --
Entering a Lesbian Field of Vision: To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts / Lise Weil.