The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse

Allison Pease is Professor of English at the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and culture, gender and sexuality, and aesthetic theory. She is the author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity and Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom.

• 1. To The Lighthouse in the context of Virginia Woolf's diaries and life Anne E. Fernald; 2. Narrative perspective in To The Lighthouse Michael Levenson; 3. To The Lighthouse's use of language and form Jane Goldman; 4. Time as protagonist in To The Lighthouse Paul Sheehan; 5. Movement, space, and embodied cognition in To The Lighthouse Melba Cuddy-Keane; 6. Reality and perception: philosophical approaches to To The Lighthouse Emily Dalgarno; 7. Feminism and gender in To The Lighthouse Gabrielle McIntire; 8. To The Lighthouse and the art of race Urmila Seshagiri; 9. Social class in To The Lighthouse Kathryn Simpson; 10. Generational difference in To The Lighthouse Ana Parejo Vadillo; 11. The visual arts in To The Lighthouse Suzanne Bellamy; 12. From memory to fiction: an essay in genetic criticism Hans Walter Gabler; 13. To The Lighthouse: the critical heritage Jean Mills.

'… the volume … offers readers a succinct, engaging, and helpful overview of the shifts in critical perspective over time.' Nell Wasserstrom, Modern Language Review