This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.

Autorentext
KATHRYN SIMPSON is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK, teaching courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and film. Her research interests focus on women's modernist writing and she has published on Woolf, H.D. and Katherine Mansfield.

Inhalt
List of abbreviations Introduction The Business of Writing: Economies in Woolf's Essays Queering the Market: 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street', Mrs Dalloway and 'The Hours' The Gift of Vision: To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Between the Acts Moments of Giving: Generosity and Desire in Woolf's Short Fictions Conclusion Bibliography Index