Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

Makiko Minow-Pinkney

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2010

Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject

Feminine Writing in the Major Novels

Makiko Minow-Pinkney

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471046

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This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing and the subject.

In a series of subtle readings of five major novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves - closely informed by psychoanalytic theory, Makiko Minow-Pinkney presents Woolf as a committed feminist whose politics emerged as an aspect of her experimentation with language and form.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
CHAPTER 1 Feminism and Modernism in Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 Jacob’s Room Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
CHAPTER 3 Mrs. Dalloway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
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CHAPTER 5 Orlando Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
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CONCLUSION A New Subjectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 224
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: March 14, 2022
ISBN: 9781474471046