Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Life
1882-1909
The 1910s
The 1920s
1930-1941
Chapter 2 Contexts
Biographies
Bloomsbury
Wider historical and political contexts
Modern and contemporary cultural contexts
Chapter 3 Works
Woolf's fiction
Woolf's nonfiction
Other essays
Chapter 4 Critical reception
Introductory reading
Critical reception
Contemporary reviews and the 1940s:innovation, experimentalism, impressionism
The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy,psychology, myth
The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny,modernism, aesthetics
The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism,sexual/textual politics
The 1990s to the present: feminism,historicism, postcolonialism, ethics
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index
