CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Civilization and “my civilisation”: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde
2. Rachel’s Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in
Melymbrosia
and
The Voyage Out
3. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in
Jacob’s Room
4.
Mrs. Dalloway
’s Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning
5. Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in
To the Lighthouse
6. A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in
Orlando, A Room of One’s Own
, and
The Waves
7. The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from
The Pargiters
to
The Years
8. St. Virginia’s Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in
Three Guineas
9. The Play in the Sky of the Mind:
Between the Acts
of Civilization’s Masterplot
Notes
Index
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