Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. ‘Here again is the usual door’: the modernity of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting’ 15
7. 2. The common reader, or how should one read an essay? 47
8. 3. ‘Unsolved problems’: essayism, counterfactuals, and the futures of A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas 76
9. 4. ‘Chasms in the continuity of our ways’: from The Voyage Out to To the Lighthouse 109
10. 5. ‘I never felt it in the least about the others’: the importance of Woolf’s essay-novel 138
11. Bibliography 169
12. Index 178