Introduction: Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience
Part 1. Quotidian Things
1. Factualism and the Search for Ordinary Things
2. Blue and Green: Sensations of Colour
Part 2. Rethinking Ordinary Experience
3. Pain, Common Illness and Ordinary Life
4. Motoring from Beauty to the Sublime
5. Moments of Being: Little Daily Miracles
Part 3. The Ordinary, Being, Ethics
6. Tracing Patterns
7. Woolf and the Ethics of the Ordinary
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lorraine Sim is Lecturer in Modern English Literature at Western Sydney University, Australia.
"Sim prompts the reader to think in dialogue, and to think back, through Woolf, to the dusty roads, scraps of newspaper and daffodils in the breeze that bind the world together in a common mind. In this, she has succeeded, making the work a welcome contribution to Woolf studies, and modernist and inter-modernist debates more generally." --Cercles
"In all of its permutations, the keynote of the New Modernist Studies over the past ten or fifteen years has been a fascination with the ordinary. Lorraine Sim's Virginia Woolf: the Patterns of Ordinary Experience (2010), which, in the cultural studies tradition, smoothly blends philosophical history with textual attentiveness and a keen awareness of the material conditions of Woolfian literary creation, represents the most thorough such contribution exclusively to Woolf studies of late." --Todd Avery, Virginia Woolf Bulletin
"Sim's careful, even-handed and meticulous book certainly enriches our understanding of Woolf, but also offers a nuanced and novel model of literary criticism in the field of everyday life studies." --Bryony Randall, Woolf Studies Annual
