Walking Virginia Woolf’s London

Lisbeth Larsson has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg since 2000. Her major publications are in the fields of popular culture, feminism and biography. She edited and contributed to The History of Nordic Women’s Literature. At present she heads the project Swedish Women Online.

“A scholarly volume offering thought-provoking readings of Woolf’s novels in pleasantly readable prose, concentrating on characters’ walks through the capital. … readers looking specifically for geocritically inflected criticism of Woolf’s fictional London wanderings are likely to be well satisfied with what they find, as will most general readers, too. … Larson’s readable study shows that a geocritical approach opens up useful, worthwhile and interesting readings of Woolf’s comments on class and sex and place.” (Mary Ellen Foley, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, Issue 60, January, 2019)“A meticulous and comprehensive addition to stud­ies of Woolf’s walking, Lisbeth Larsson’s book sets out to trace … an inductive survey of the actual walks taken by various characters which uses the tools of literary geography to draw insightful conclusions about Woolf’s political demarcations of London and her critiques of class, patriarchy, and colonialism.” (Elisa Kay Sparks, Woolf Studies Annual, Vol. 25, 2019)

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Dreaming of London — The Voyage Out.- 3 A Room of One’s Own behind the Strand — Night and Day.- 4 A Brief Moment in Bloomsbury — Jacob’s Room.- 5 Walking in Upper-Class Westminster — Mrs. Dalloway.- 6 TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS— To the Lighthouse, Orlando,