Contents

pp v-vii

Introduction

pp viii-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

HERITAGE: A DEBATE

pp 1-1

“Her—it—age!”: Virginia Woolf and Syllabic intervention— Or, “Heritage is a Kim Novak word”

pp 2-8

HERITAGE, EDUCATION, AND MENTORING

pp 9-9

“The Very Centre of the Very Centre”: H. A. L. Fisher, Oxford, and “That Great Patriarchal Machine”

pp 10-29

Virginia Stephen's Uneasy Heritage: Lessons, Readers, and Class

pp 30-35

Teaching Virginia Woolf in Sin City: Vegas Entertainers and a New Feminist Heritage

pp 36-41

Out-takes from Upstarts: Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Heritage of Dissent, or, “There She Wasn't?”

pp 42-46

Virginia Woolf 's Female Heritage: The Legacy of Anny Thackeray Ritchie, Woolf 's “Transparent Medium”

pp 47-52

HERITAGE SPACES

pp 53-53

Virginia Woolf and the Artistic Heritage of St. Ives

pp 54-59

“The little bit of power I had myself ”: Lady Lasswade's Shifting Sense of Place in The Years

pp 60-66

Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf 's Between the Acts

pp 67-72

Heritage Hoarding: Artifacts, Archives, and Ambiguity, or, the Saga of Virginia Woolf 's Standing Desk

pp 73-79

“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”: Vanessa Bell's Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as Monument to Virginia Woolf

pp 80-88

LITERARY AND CULTURAL HERITAGES

pp 89-89

Virginia Woolf in Greece: “Curious contrasts!”: Hellenism and Englishness

pp 90-95

Whose Idea of Tragedy? Mrs Dalloway and the Ancient Greek Tradition

pp 96-101

Silence, Darkness, and Dirt: Mysticism and Materiality in The Years and Between the Acts

pp 102-108

Virginia Woolf Reads the Romantics

pp 109-114

A Critical Heritage: Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, and Walter Scott

pp 115-120

“Where Childhood's dreams are twined”: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Heritage of Lewis Carroll

pp 121-126

QUEER PASTS

pp 127-127

Sex and Literary History in Orlando

pp 128-133

Queer Elizabeth: Early/Modern Feeling in Orlando and Elizabeth and Essex

pp 134-140

Persuading Rachel: Woolf and Austen's “little voyage of discovery”

pp 141-147

“The world…seen from this angle undoubtedly looks queer”: History, Heritage, and the Queer Domesticity of Between the Acts

pp 148-154