Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories

Anne Besnault is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen and the Vice president of the French Virginia Woolf Society (SEW). In 1997, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation "The Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen" at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honours. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes réunis et édités par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (2014) and Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide : Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature and the Visual Arts (Routledge, 2018).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: "Historians’ Histories" and Woolf’s New HistoriographyChapter 1: Prescribed Books and the Possibilities of Knowledge: Making Sense of TraditionChapter 2: History’s Readability: Woolf and Romantic HistoriographyChapter 3: Rewriting History: Creating Contexts for ChangeChapter 4: "Why?": The 1930s and History in the PresentPart II: Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Literary Histories Chapter 5: The Critic as Historiographer: Blurring Illusory BoundariesChapter 6: Literary History as a Laboratory: Practices of KnowledgeChapter 7: Virginia Woolf, Fiction and the "Woman Question" Chapter 8: Our Perfect and Imperfect Mothers: Woolf's Nineteenth-Century Counter-Narratives BibliographyIndex

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