FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, FEBRUARY 1997

Copyright © 1995 by Jeanette Winterson

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published in Great Britain in hardcover by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1995. First published in the United States in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,

New York, in 1996.

The Library of Congress has cataloged

the Knopf edition as follows:

Winterson, Jeanette, [date]

Art objects : essays on ecstasy and effrontery/Jeanette Winterson.

p. cm.

1. Winterson, Jeanette, [date]—Aesthetics.

2. Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941—Criticism and interpretation.

3. Women and literature.

4. Aesthetics, Modern.

I. Title.

PR6073.1558A8 1996

824′.914—dc20  95-33215

eISBN: 978-0-307-76360-0

Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/

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