A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

Chronology; Introduction Susan Sellers; 1. Bloomsbury Andrew McNeillie; 2. Virginia Woolf's early novels: finding a voice Suzanne Raitt; 3. From Mrs Dalloway to The Waves: new elegy and lyric experimentalism Jane Goldman; 4. The novels of the 1930s and the impact of history Julia Briggs; 5. Virginia Woolf's essays Hermione Lee; 6. Virginia Woolf, modernism and modernity Michael Whitworth; 7. The socio-political vision of the novels David Bradshaw; 8. Woolf's feminism and feminism's Woolf Laura Marcus; 9. Virginia Woolf and sexuality Patricia Morgne Cramer; 10. Virginia Woolf, empire and race Helen Carr; 11. Virginia Woolf and visual culture Maggie Humm; 12. Virginia Woolf and the public sphere Melba Cuddy-Keane; Guide to further reading; Index.