Michael Whitworth is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Modernism.

'I welcome this thorough and deft overview of the criticism of Mrs. Dalloway-alert to both the foibles and insights of criticism from 1925 to the present moment. Ranging widely among well-known and nearly-forgotten commentaries from around the globe, this short book offers an accessible, authoritative survey. Rich in quotations, Michael Whitworth's study deftly places ninety years of criticism in the context of broader developments in literary criticism and theory.' - Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University, USA

• Introduction1. Early Responses2. Recovering Woolf: Criticism in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism3. Woolf and Philosophy4. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism5. Woolf and Psychoanalysis6. Sexuality and the Body7. Historicist Approaches8. Mrs Dalloway and The HoursConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Michael Whitworth is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Modernism.

'I welcome this thorough and deft overview of the criticism of Mrs. Dalloway-alert to both the foibles and insights of criticism from 1925 to the present moment. Ranging widely among well-known and nearly-forgotten commentaries from around the globe, this short book offers an accessible, authoritative survey. Rich in quotations, Michael Whitworth's study deftly places ninety years of criticism in the context of broader developments in literary criticism and theory.' - Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University, USA

• Introduction1. Early Responses2. Recovering Woolf: Criticism in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism3. Woolf and Philosophy4. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism5. Woolf and Psychoanalysis6. Sexuality and the Body7. Historicist Approaches8. Mrs Dalloway and The HoursConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Michael Whitworth is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Modernism.

'I welcome this thorough and deft overview of the criticism of Mrs. Dalloway-alert to both the foibles and insights of criticism from 1925 to the present moment. Ranging widely among well-known and nearly-forgotten commentaries from around the globe, this short book offers an accessible, authoritative survey. Rich in quotations, Michael Whitworth's study deftly places ninety years of criticism in the context of broader developments in literary criticism and theory.' - Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University, USA

• Introduction1. Early Responses2. Recovering Woolf: Criticism in the Era of Second-Wave Feminism3. Woolf and Philosophy4. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism5. Woolf and Psychoanalysis6. Sexuality and the Body7. Historicist Approaches8. Mrs Dalloway and The HoursConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.