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Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction : Changing the Subject xiii -- Reading Practice I. The Feminist Critic Reads Men : Wilde, Meredith, Ibsen -- 1. Salome : The Jewish Princess Was a New Woman 3 -- 2. "Clio in Calliope" : History and Myth in Meredith's Diana of the Crossways 20 -- 3. Nostalgia Is Not Enough : Why Elizabeth Hardwick Misreads Ibsen, Plath, and Woolf 49 -- Reading Practice II. The Socialist Critic Reads Virginia Woolf -- 4. Thinking Back through Our Mothers 73 -- 5. "No More Horses" : Virginia Woolf on Art and Propaganda 101 -- 6. Art and Anger : Elizabeth Robins and Virginia Woolf 122 -- Writing Practice. The Lupine Critic Writes a (Biased) History of Virginia Woolf Scholarship -- 7. Tintinnabulations 157 -- 8. Storming the Toolshed 182 -- 9. Quentin's Bogey 201 -- A Theoretical Perspective -- 10. Still Practice, A/Wrested Alphabet : Toward a Feminist Aesthetic 215 -- Notes 251 -- Index 281