Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf’s Short Fiction

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Through a Glass, Longingly....Pages 17-24
“Excursions into the literature of a foreign country”: Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the Short Fiction....Pages 25-38
Conversations at Kew: Reading Woolf’s Feminist Narratology....Pages 39-62
The Lesbian Intertext of Woolf’s Short Fiction....Pages 63-80
Collecting, Shopping, and Reading: Virginia Woolf’s Stories About Objects....Pages 81-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
“A corridor leading from Mrs. Dalloway to a new book”: Transforming Stories, Bending Genres....Pages 101-124
“A view of one’s own”: Writing Women’s Lives and the Early Short Stories....Pages 125-138
Virginia Woolf’s Shorter Fictional Explorations of the External World: “closely united … immensely divided”....Pages 139-155
Verbal Painting in “Blue & Green” and “Monday or Tuesday”....Pages 157-174
“Cut deep and scored thick with meaning”: Frame and Focus in Woolf’s Later Short Stories....Pages 175-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-223