Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Karyn Z. Sproles

Published by University of Toronto Press 2006

Desiring Women

The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Karyn Z. Sproles

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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487571955

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Sexy and provocative, Desiring Women re-imagines Woolf and Sackville-West as daring, funny, beautiful, and bent on resisting the repression of women's desires.

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Sproles Karyn Z. :

Karyn Sproles is a professor in the Department of English and an associate dean of the General Education Program at James Madison University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Desiring Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Forbidden Knowledge: Vita Sackville-West's Secret Fruit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Making Use of the Fruit: Vita Sackville-West's Influence on Virginia Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. Orlando: A Biography of Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Genre Instability and Orlando: Biography as a Feminist Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Making up Women: Revolutions in Biography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. Love Letters and Feminine Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8. Subverted Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Appendix A: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West' s Relationship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Appendix B: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf's and Vita Sackville-West's Publications, 1922-9 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Appendix C: A Selected Chronological Bibliography of Virginia Woolf and Sexuality, 1972-99 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 262

eBook

Published: December 15, 2006
ISBN: 9781487571955