Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Brown Stocking, Erich Auerbach 3. Virginia Woolf and English culture, Tony Inglis 4. Mirrors and Fragments, Francoise Defromont 5. Narrative structure(s) and female development - the case of "Mrs Dalloway", Elizabeth Abel 6. "The Third Stroke" - reading Woolf with Freud, Mary Jacobus 7. Tradition and revision in Woolf's "Orlando" - Defoe and "The Jessamy Brides", Susan M.

Squier 8. The island and the aeroplane - the case of Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer 9. Woolf's room, our project - the building of feminist criticism, Catharine R. Stimpson 10. Penelope at work - interruptions in "A Room of One's Own", Peggy Kamuf Notes on authors Further Reading Index.