Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05208-6 - The Cambridge Companion to: To the Lighthouse Edited by Allison Pease Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to TO THE LIGHTHOUSE To the Lighthouse is one of the most important of Virginia Woolf’s modernist achievements. Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, this companion to To the Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike. Individual chapters explore the biographical and textual genesis of the novel; its narrative perspectives and use of form; its thematic and formal attention to time and space; and its representations of feminism and gender as well as generational change, race, and class. Complete with a chapter on the novel’s critical history, a chronology, and a guide to further reading, this volume synthesizes To the Lighthouse ’s major ideas and formal innovations while also summarizing and advancing critical debate. Allison Pease is Professor of English at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth- century British literature and culture, gender and sexuality, and aesthetic theory. She is the author of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity and Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom . 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It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107682313 © Cambridge University Press 2015 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2015 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data The Cambridge companion to To the lighthouse / edited by Allison Pease. pages cm – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-107-05208-6 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-107-68231-3 (paperback) 1. Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941. To the lighthouse. I. Pease, Allison, editor. PR 6045. O 72 T 665 2014 823′.912–dc23 2014020963 ISBN 978-1-107-05208-6 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-68231-3 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URL s for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05208-6 - The Cambridge Companion to: To the Lighthouse Edited by Allison Pease Frontmatter More information CONTENTS List of Contributors page ix Acknowledgments xiii Chronology xv List of Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 Allison Pease 1 To the Lighthouse in the Context of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and Life 6 Anne E. Fernald 2 Narrative Perspective in To the Lighthouse 19 Michael Levenson 3 To the Lighthouse’ s Use of Language and Form 30 Jane Goldman 4 Time as Protagonist in To the Lighthouse 47 Paul Sheehan 5 Movement, Space, and Embodied Cognition in To the Lighthouse 58 Melba Cuddy-Keane 6 Reality and Perception: Philosophical Approaches to To the Lighthouse 69 Emily Dalgarno 7 Feminism and Gender in To the Lighthouse 80 Gabrielle McIntire vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05208-6 - The Cambridge Companion to: To the Lighthouse Edited by Allison Pease Frontmatter More information Contents 8 To the Lighthouse and the Art of Race 92 Urmila Seshagiri 9 Social Class in To the Lighthouse 110 Kathryn Simpson 10 Generational Difference in To the Lighthouse 122 Ana Parejo Vadillo 11 The Visual Arts in To the Lighthouse 136 Suzanne Bellamy 12 From Memory to Fiction: An Essay in Genetic Criticism 146 Hans Walter Gabler 13 To the Lighthouse : The Critical Heritage 158 Jean Mills Guide to Further Reading 173 Index 179 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05208-6 - The Cambridge Companion to: To the Lighthouse Edited by Allison Pease Frontmatter More information CONTRIBUTORS SUZANNE BELLAMY is an internationally exhibiting Australian studio artist, writer, and researcher whose work comprises image/text fusions and perfor- mance work on Woolf/Stein/modernism, including “Am I Blue?” (London 2005), “Woolf’s Pageant” (Glasgow 2011), “A Sketch of the Past” (Ohio 2007, South Carolina 2012), “Woolf and the Chaucer Horse” (University of Glasgow 2014), and “Two Saints in One Act” (Chicago 2014). Her essay “Woolf and the Arts: Homage, Afterlife, and the Originating Text” appeared in Virginia Woolf in Context , Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman, eds. (2012). She is currently complet- ing a book on Virginia Woolf, Australia, and international modernism (website: suzannebellamy.com). MELBA CUDDY-KEANE is Emerita Professor, University of Toronto-Scarborough, and an Emerita Member of the University of Toronto’s Graduate Department of English. Her publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (2003), the Harcourt annotated edition of Woolf’s Between the Acts (2008), contributions to The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (2nd ed., 2010) and Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury, Volume 2: International Infl uence and Politics (2010), and, coauthored with Adam Hammond and Alexandra Peat, Modernism: Keywords (2014). EMILY DALGARNO is an emeritus professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Visible World (2001), Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language (2012), as well as articles on Conrad, Faulkner, Hurston, and Woolf. ANNE E. FERNALD is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006); editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014); editor of a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on women’s fi ction, new modernist studies, and feminism; and the author of many articles and book reviews. She teaches at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-05208-6 - The Cambridge Companion to: To the Lighthouse Edited by Allison Pease Frontmatter More information Contributors HANS WALTER GABLER is Professor (retired) of English literature and editorial scholarship at the University of Munich, Germany, and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University. From 1996 to 2002 in Munich, he directed an interdisciplinary graduate program on “Textual Criticism as Foundation and Method of the Historical Disciplines.” He is editor in chief of the critical editions of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1984/1986), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , and Dubliners (both 1993). A strong present concern is genetic criticism on foundations of writing processes digitally edited. JANE GOLDMAN is author of The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual (1998) and coeditor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998). Her recent pub- lications include Modernism, 1910–1945: Image to Apocalypse (2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006). She is general editor (with Susan Sellers) of the Cambridge University Press Edition of Woolf’s works and vol- ume editor of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse for Cambridge. She is currently writing a book, Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog . MICHAEL LEVENSON is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia; author of A Genealogy of Modernism (1984), Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (1990), The Spectacle of Intimacy (with Karen Chase 2000), and Modernism (2011); and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2000, 2nd edition 2011). Professor Levenson has published essays in