Table of Contents
Ruth Gruber • Forward vi
Anna Burrells, Steve Ellis, Deborah Parsons, Kathryn Simpson • Introduction ix
Suzanne Bellamy • Textual Archeology: An Australian Study of Virginia Woolf in 1942 1
Amber K. Regis • “From all this diversity…not a riot of confusion but a richer unity”: The
Limits of Self-Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography 8
Deborah Gerrard • Brown-ness, Trees, Rose Petals, and Chrysalises: The Influence of
Edward Carpenter’s Mystical Evolutionary Socialism on the Writing of Virginia
Woolf, with Particular Reference to The Years 15
Katie Macnamara • Mapping Woolf’s Montaignian Modernism 22
Jim Stewart • Woolf and Andrew Marvell: The Gendering of Modernism 30
Ben Clarke • “But the barrier is impassable”: Virginia Woolf and Class 36
Helen Southworth • “Outside the magic (and tyrannical) triangle of London-Oxford-
Cambridge”: John Hampson, The Woolfs, and the Hogarth Press 43
Lara Feigel • Buggery and Montage: Birmingham and Bloomsbury in the 1930s 51
Alyda Faber • “The shock of love” and the Visibility of “indecent” Pain: Reading the
Woolf-Raverat Correspondence 58
Susan Reid • Killing the Angel in the House: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and the
Boundaries of Sex and Gender 65
Randi Synnøve Koppen • Real Bodies and the Psychology of Clothes: Three Guineas
and the Limits of Sartorial Reasoning 72
Ian Blyth • Woolf, Rooks, and Rural England 80
Richard Espley • Woolf and the Others at the Zoo 86
Christina Alt • Pests and Pesticides: Exploring the Boundaries of Woolf’s Environmentalism 93
Jane Goldman • “Ce chien est à moi”: Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog 100
Bonnie Kime Scott • Virginia Woolf, Ecofeminism, and Breaking Boundaries in Nature 108
Emily Kopley • Woolf’s Transformation of Providential Form in Mrs. Dalloway 116
Thaine Stearns • Pilfering Modernism’s Image: Woolf and Those Other Londoners 121
Ben Harvey • Borderline Personalities: Woolf Reviews Kapp 127
Elizabeth Wright • Performing the Self: Woolf as Actress and Audience 138
Wendy Parkins • “Whose face was it?”: Nicole Kidman, Virginia Woolf, and the
Boundaries of Feminine Celebrity 144
Maggie Humm • “Memory Holes” or “Heterotopias”?: The Bloomsbury Photographs 150
Tara Surry • “Over the boundary”: Virginia Woolf as Common Seer 157
Elisa Kay Sparks • “The evening under lamplight…with the photograph album”: To
the Lighthouse as Family Scrapbook 164
Melba Cuddy-Keane • Afterword: Inside and Outside the Covers: Beginnings, Endings,
and Woolf’s Non-Coercive Ethical Texts 172
Notes on Contributors 181
