Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject

This classic study shows that Woolf's most experimental writing is far from being a flight from social commitment into arcane modernism. Indeed, it is 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-Pinkne