PARALLEL PLOTLINES:VIRGINIA WOOLF AND FLORBELA ESPANCA ON THE TRANSCANONICAL MAP

Voyage as metaphor

Portuguese tradition

Colonialism of both nations

Empire

Empirical

the experimental

Modernism

stream-of-consciousness

Colonialism as cannibalism

the body of the text

Sontag "illness as metaphor"

the sea

the "see"

sight and the "I"/"eye"

Canon

transcanonical

existing across canons and times

Eurocentrism

European fascism

British domestic patriarchy

"Orlando"

escapes genre

narrative as gendered

transatlantic

international dialogue

Relationship with New York literary agents

Ann Watkins

Jacques Chambrun

Ambivalence surrounding commercialism

transcontinental

Clarice

Dickinson

"as a woman, my country is the whole world" (Girton lecture)

legal association

Espanca at law school

Three Guineas judge

Biblical

The Apocrypha

Testaments

Discourse

New-Historicism

Network of circulation

literary

non-literary

historical

historiography

literary history

Genealogy

Foucault

narration (narration)

histoire (story)

récit (text)

political

rhetorical

committee discourse

Patriarchal fascism as a men's and women's problem

Plotlines

Fictions

fluid

subjectivities

life writing

writing the self

Slippery text

Gaps

Permeable membrane

free-flow

Inter-penetration of fiction and non-fiction

Cartography

the linear

the geographical

globalisation

location

Loci

memory

rooms

A Room of One's Own

Spatial

interiors

drawn in and drawn out

exteriors

Room for more

Outside the post- 1970's criticism

metaphor reappropriation

Hilary Owen "a paragraph of their own"

Alternative narratives

Intellectual principles

Feminism

The Hogarth Press

Pamphlets

Florbela

Woolf as "the most brilliant pamphleteer in England (Orlo Williams)

The TLS, 4 June 1938

"Three Guineas" as the Book of the Year, hailed in Time and Tide by Theodora Bosanquet

Economic means

transnational conversation

the paratextual

Basements

A column of their own

“Ay me, what act, / That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?”

Judith Shakespeare

a legitimate historical subject

1917

D.H Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature

Lytton Strachey:Landmarks in French literature

the backroom studio

double acts

John Lehmann

Sequels- Three Guineas

stanzas

Florbela's sonnets

Form

"domestic architecture"

"The Open Door"/"Opening the Door"/ "A Tap on the Door" as provisional titles for "Three Guineas"

Aesthetics of transgression

Parallel

alongside one another

Anglo-american tradition of literary criticism

"The room next door"

Norah Nicholls

the interwar female professional

complementary textualities

alternatives in "parallelos"

corpus

experiences as a body

Woman

Female identity