Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. References ix
5. Part One. PERSPECTIVES
6. 1. Introduction: Virginia Woolf, the Novel, and a Chorus of Voices 1
7. 2. Hunting the Moth: Virginia Woolf and the Creative Imagination 13
8. 3. Virginia Woolf's Narrators and the Art of "Life Itself" 29
9. 4. Forms of the Woolfian Short Story 44
10. Part Two. THE SEQUENCE
11. 5. "Surely Order Did Prevail": Virginia Woolf and The Voyage Out 73
12. 6. Enchanted Organs, Magic Bells: Night and Day as Comic Opera 97
13. 7. The Form of Fact and Fiction: Jacob's Room as Paradigm 123
14. 8. Mrs. Dalloway: The Unguarded Moment 141
15. 9. To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf's W inter's Tale 161
16. 10. Orlando and Its Genesis: Venturing and Experimenting in Art, Love, and Sex 189
17. 11. Nature and Community: A Study of Cyclical Reality in The Waves 219
18. 12. Nature and History in The Years 241
19. 13. Woolf's Peculiar Comic World: Between The Acts 263
20. Contributors 285
21. Bibliography 287
22. Index 293