Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One Escaping the Drawing-room Party: Reconstructing Female Identity, Rewriting the Courtship Plot
1.1 “A Lady Has to Spend Her Life in the Drawing-room”: Victorian Drawing-room and the Construction of Gender Identity
1.2 Party in the Colonial “Wild” in The Voyage Out
1.3 Drawing-room Resistance in Night and Day
Chapter Two“The Party […] Begins in the Kitchen”: Domestic Servants and Modernist Narratives
2.1 Kitchen and the Construction of Class Identity in the Victorian House
2.2 In Between the Kitchen and the Drawing Room: The “Georgian Cook” and Woolf's Literary Modernism
2.3 Clarissa's Party: TheKitchen Perspective in Mrs. DaHoway
2.4 The Servant's Hand behind Mrs. Ramsay's Dinner: Aestheticizing the Moment of Interruption in To the Lighthouse
Chapter Three Parties in Liminal Houses: Outsiders and the De-familiarization of the Family Saga
3.1 “An Englishman's Home Is His Castle”: Victorian Home and Nation Revisited
3.2 “An Abominable System”: Woolf's Critique of the Victorian Ideology of Home and Nation in The Years
3.3 “We Dine in the Basement”: Remol~ng the English Home, Reworking with “Externality” in The Years
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography