This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Rather, it can be best seen as a feminist subversion of the deepest formal principles of a patriarchal social order: the very definitions of narrative, writing and the subject. In a series of subtle readings of five major novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves - closely informed by psychoanalytic theory, Makiko Minow-Pinkney presents Woolf as a committed feminist whose politics emerged as an aspect of her experimentation with language and form.

About the Author
Makiko Minow-Pinkney is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, Media and Education at the University of Bolton.


Book Information
ISBN 9780748641949
Author Makiko Minow-Pinkney
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press