Religion, Secularism, and the Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf

1. Introduction-Desire Lines: The Spiritual Paths of Virginia Woolf2. "Some restless searcher in me": Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Mysticism3. A God "in process of change": Woolfian Theology and Mrs. Dalloway4. "The thing is in itself enough": Virginia Woolf's Sacred Everyday5. Virginia Woolf Reads "Dover Beach": Romance and the Victorian Crisis of Faith in To the Lighthouse6. Woolf and Hopkins on the Revelatory Particular7. "Perpetual Departure": Sacred Space and Urban Pilgrimage in Woolf's Essays8. Quaker Mysticism and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse9. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Dostoevsky: The Sacred Space of the Soul10. "She heard the first words": Lesbian Subjectivity and Prophetic Discourse in Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Between the Acts11. Sensibility, Parochiality, Spirituality: Toward a Critical Method and Ethic of Response in Woolf, Spivak, and Mahmood