1st Edition
Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories Conversations with the Nineteenth Century
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: "Historians’ Histories" and Woolf’s New Historiography
Chapter 1: Prescribed Books and the Possibilities of Knowledge: Making Sense of Tradition
Chapter 2: History’s Readability: Woolf and Romantic Historiography
Chapter 3: Rewriting History: Creating Contexts for Change
Chapter 4: "Why?": The 1930s and History in the Present
Part II: Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Literary Histories
Chapter 5: The Critic as Historiographer: Blurring Illusory Boundaries
Chapter 6: Literary History as a Laboratory: Practices of Knowledge
Chapter 7: Virginia Woolf, Fiction and the "Woman Question"
Chapter 8: Our Perfect and Imperfect Mothers: Woolf's Nineteenth-Century Counter-Narratives
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Anne Besnault is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen and the Vice president of the French Virginia Woolf Society (SEW). In 1997, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation "The Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen" at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honours. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes réunis et édités par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (2014) and Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide : Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature and the Visual Arts (Routledge, 2018).
