10. Capitalism and Woolf’s Beyond-Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Series Editor’s Preface ix
6. Abbreviations x
7. Notes on Contributors xi
8. Woolf and Capitalism: Introduction 1
9. Part I Class, Empire, Capital
10. 1. ‘The eagle claws other peoples land, & goods’: Virginia Woolf on the Desire to Dominate 27
11. 2. Empire, Slavery and Capitalism 48
12. 3. ‘my comfortable capitalistic head’: Virginia Woolf on Consumption, Co-operation and Motherhood 70
13. 4. Biometric Feminism: A Room of One’s Own and the Politics of Intelligence 92
14. 5. ‘Merchant of this city’: Capitalism and the Liturgies of Peace and War in Jacob’s Room 116
15. Part II Labour and the Marketplace
16. 6. Between the Houses: Woolf and the Property Marke 135
17. 7. Publishing and Capitalism at the Hogarth Press 159
18. 8. ‘It’s rather distinguished to be as ordinary as I am.’ Woolf’s Working Women Writers 182
19. 9. The Literary Public Sphere in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day 203
20. 10. Capitalism and Woolf’s Beyond-Work 224
21. 11. Virginia Woolf: A Sound Investment 245
22. Coda: Critical/Creative Responses
23. 12. Scrapbooking the Present Day: The Three Guineas Scrapbooks 267
24. 13. Work Cut Out 295
25. Index 305