Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf

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.

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