Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Abbreviations x
5. Introduction: ‘Such Absences!’ 1
6. 1. Virginia Woolf Reads Shakespeare: or, Her Silence on Master William 8
7. 2. ‘The Proper Writing of Lives’: Biography versus Fiction in Woolf’s Early Work 25
8. 3. Night and Day: The Marriage of Dreams and Realities 42
9. 4. Reading People, Reading Texts: ‘Byron and Mr Briggs’ 63
10. 5. ‘Modernism’s Lost Hope’: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the Printing of Paris 80
11. 6. The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction 96
12. 7. The Search for Form (ii): Revision and the Numbers of Time 113
13. 8. ‘This Moment I Stand On’: Virginia Woolf and the Spaces in Time 125
14. 9. ‘Like a Shell on a Sandhill’: Woolf’s Images of Emptiness 141
15. 10. Constantinople: At the Crossroads of the Imagination 152
16. 11. The Conversation behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable 162
17. 12. ‘Sudden Intensities’: Frame and Focus in Woolf’s Later Short Stories 172
18. 13. ‘Almost Ashamed of England Being so English’: Woolf and Ideas of Englishness 190
19. 14. Between the Texts: Woolf’s Acts of Revision 208
20. Index 231