Rachel Bowlby's acclaimed book on Virginia Woolf now appears with five new essays which look at Woolf in a number of new frames - as a woman essayist; as a city writer and critic of modern culture; and as a writer on love. Rachel Bowlby shows, with inimitable critical panache, how it is that Woolf's writing, in its many forms and fashions, continues to provide rich matter for thinking about the histories and futures of women, writing and culture.
Part One Feminist destinations: "we're getting there" - Woolf, trains and the destinations of feminist criticism; the trained mind; Orlando's vacillation; getting to Q - sexual lines in "To the Lighthouse"; thinking forward through Mrs Dalloway's daughter; Jacob's type; things; Orlando's undoing; partings; the dotted line. Part Two Further essays: "Orlando" - an introduction; Virginia Woolf's "In Love"; walking, women and writing; "A More than Maternal Tie" - Woolf as a woman essayist; "The Crowded Dance of Modern Life".
