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Intro
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Waterscapes
1.1 Modernism and Water: 'Blueing' Virginia Woolf
1.2 The Materiality of Metaphor
1.3 Mapping Modernist Waterscapes
References
Chapter 2: Aqueous Affinities: Woolf, Bachelard and the English Romantic Poets
2.1 Bachelard's Water and Dreams and Woolf's Poetics of Water
2.2 Woolf's Waterscapes: 'More Congenial to Me Than Any Human Being'
2.3 'And Myself So Eliminated of Human Features': Water and the Appeal of the Impersonal
2.4 From the 'Incessant Shower' to the 'Bottom of the Sea': Woolf's Dialectics of Surface and Depth
2.5 Writing in Water: Woolf, Keats and the Possibilities of Ambiguity
References
Chapter 3: 'How It Floats Me Afresh': Water in Woolf's Early Experimental Fiction
3.1 'And We, Submerged, Widen Our Eyes Again': Exploring New Territories in the Early Stories
3.2 The Blue Air-Ball Beneath the Fountain: Elusive (Subject) Matter in Jacob's Room
References
Chapter 4: The Fluid Texture of Time: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves
4.1 The Rhythm Between Depth and Surface: Competing Temporalities in Mrs. Dalloway
4.2 'In the Face of the Flowing': Movement and Ecstasis in To the Lighthouse
4.3 The Aggregate States of Time: (Re)Writing Literary History in Orlando
4.4 'And Time Lets Fall Its Drop': Saturating the Moment in The Waves
References
Chapter 5: 'The Obscure Body of the Sea': Female Bodies, Water and Artistic Creation from The Voyage Out to The Waves
5.1 The Voyage Out: The Young Woman and the Sea
5.2 'To Move and Float and Sink': Artistic Immersion in To the Lighthouse
5.3 Attached to the Sea: Fluid Bodies in The Waves
References
Chapter 6: 'Floating Down a River into Silence': Water in Woolf's Later Works
6.1 'And Then We Sank into Silences': The Metapoetics of The Waves
6.2 The Silence of the Fish: Opaque Water and the Constraints of Language in Between the Acts
6.3 'The Watering Place': The Deterioration of Words into Wastewater
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
References
Index
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Virginia Woolf's Modernist Waterscapes
1.1 Modernism and Water: 'Blueing' Virginia Woolf
1.2 The Materiality of Metaphor
1.3 Mapping Modernist Waterscapes
References
Chapter 2: Aqueous Affinities: Woolf, Bachelard and the English Romantic Poets
2.1 Bachelard's Water and Dreams and Woolf's Poetics of Water
2.2 Woolf's Waterscapes: 'More Congenial to Me Than Any Human Being'
2.3 'And Myself So Eliminated of Human Features': Water and the Appeal of the Impersonal
2.4 From the 'Incessant Shower' to the 'Bottom of the Sea': Woolf's Dialectics of Surface and Depth
2.5 Writing in Water: Woolf, Keats and the Possibilities of Ambiguity
References
Chapter 3: 'How It Floats Me Afresh': Water in Woolf's Early Experimental Fiction
3.1 'And We, Submerged, Widen Our Eyes Again': Exploring New Territories in the Early Stories
3.2 The Blue Air-Ball Beneath the Fountain: Elusive (Subject) Matter in Jacob's Room
References
Chapter 4: The Fluid Texture of Time: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves
4.1 The Rhythm Between Depth and Surface: Competing Temporalities in Mrs. Dalloway
4.2 'In the Face of the Flowing': Movement and Ecstasis in To the Lighthouse
4.3 The Aggregate States of Time: (Re)Writing Literary History in Orlando
4.4 'And Time Lets Fall Its Drop': Saturating the Moment in The Waves
References
Chapter 5: 'The Obscure Body of the Sea': Female Bodies, Water and Artistic Creation from The Voyage Out to The Waves
5.1 The Voyage Out: The Young Woman and the Sea
5.2 'To Move and Float and Sink': Artistic Immersion in To the Lighthouse
5.3 Attached to the Sea: Fluid Bodies in The Waves
References
Chapter 6: 'Floating Down a River into Silence': Water in Woolf's Later Works
6.1 'And Then We Sank into Silences': The Metapoetics of The Waves
6.2 The Silence of the Fish: Opaque Water and the Constraints of Language in Between the Acts
6.3 'The Watering Place': The Deterioration of Words into Wastewater
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
References
Index