| List of Abbreviations | ix | |
| Preface | xi | |
| 1. | Civilization and "my civilisation": Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde | 1 |
| 2. | Rachel's Great War: Civilization, Sacrifice, and the Enlightenment of Women in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out | 35 |
| 3. | The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room | 63 |
| 4. | Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning | 87 |
| 5. | Picture the World: The Quest for the Thing Itself in To the Lighthouse | 129 |
| 6. | A Fin in a Waste of Waters: Women, Genius, Freedom in Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and The Waves | 175 |
| 7. | The Sexual Life of Women: Experimental Genres, Experimental Publics from The Pargiters to The Years | 213 |
| 8. | St. Virginia's Epistle to an English Gentleman: Sex, Violence, and the Public Sphere in Three Guineas | 259 |
| 9. | The Play in the Sky of the Mind: Between the Acts of Civilization's Masterplot | 287 |
| Notes | 325 | |
| Index | 415 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity.
Contributors: Christine Froula - Author.
Publisher: Columbia University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: vii.
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