Publisher's Synopsis
Virginia Woolf's best-known novel has often been thought of as symbolic and difficult. This book surveys the critical work done on it and argues that assumptions about Woolf's modernist intentions have obscured other aspects of the text. It goes on to suggest that a more fertile way of interpreting the text is to regard it as a meditaion on the experience of women and especially the problems of motherhood in the light of psycho-analytic theory.
