Virginia Woolf

James Acheson is former Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His previous publications include a volume on John Fowles in the New Casebooks series.

• Notes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction; James Acheson1. Mind-wandering and Mindfulness: A Cognitive Approach to Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Melba Cuddy-Keane2. Spirituality in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Heather Ingman3. Victorian Roots: The Sense of the Past in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Kate Flint4. Modernism and Bloomsbury Aesthetics; Gabrielle McIntire5. 'Women Can't Write, Women Can't Paint': Art and the Artist in To the Lighthouse; Bonnie Kime Scott6. On the Death of the Soul: a Jungian Reading of Mrs. Dalloway; Katherine Tarbox7. On Not Being Able to Paint: To the Lighthouse via Psychoanalysis; Maud Ellmann8. Mrs. Dalloway and the War that Wouldn't End; Brian Finney9. Mrs. Dalloway and the Reinvention of the Novel; Porter Abbott10. Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse: The Novel as Elegy; Daniel Bedggood11. What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know: Woolf and Feminism in the 1920s; Patricia Moran12. The Warp and the Weft: Homoeroticism in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse; Diana L. Swanson13. The Cambridge Woolf; Jane Goldman and E.H. WrightFurther ReadingIndex.

It is a fine book. All the essays are lucidly written, and most have something new and suggestive to offer.