Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Virginia Woolf and Prehistory 6
6. 2. Hume, Stephen, and Elegy in To the Lighthouse 29
7. 3. The Body of the People: Mrs Dalloway to The Waves 48
8. 4. The Waves: 'The Life of Anybody' 74
9. 5. The Victorians in Virginia Woolf: 1832-1941 92
10. 6. Physics, Sound, and Substance: Later Woolf 112
11. 7. Between the Acts: Resisting the End 125
12. 8. The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf 149
13. Index 179