Acknowledgements 1
List of Abbreviations 1
Introduction 1
Chapter One Escaping the Drawing-room Party:Reconstructing Female Identity,Rewriting the Courtship Plot 40
1.1 "A Lady Has to Spend Her Life in the Drawing-room":Victorian Drawing-room and the Construction of Gender Identity 45
1.2 Party in the Colonial"Wild"in The Voyage Out 63
1.3 Drawing-room Resistance in Night and Day 92
Chapter Two "The Party [...]Begins in the Kitchen":Domestic Servants and Modernist Narratives 112
2.1 Kitchen and the Construction of Class Identity in the Victorian House 117
2.2 In Between the Kitchen and the Drawing Room:The"Georgian Cook"and Woolf's Literary Modernism 125
2.3 Clarissa's Party:The Kitchen Perspective in Mrs.Dalloway 138
2.4 The Servant's Hand behind Mrs.Ramsay's Dinner:Aestheticizing the Moment of Interruption in To the Lighthouse 158
Chapter Three Parties in Liminal Houses:Outsiders and the De-familiarization of the Family Saga 175
3.1 "An Englishman's Home Is His Castle":Victorian Home and Nation Revisited 186
3.2 "An Abominable System":Woolf's Critique of the Victorian Ideology of Home and Nation in The Years 192
3.3 "We Dine in the Basement":Remolding the English Home,Reworking with"Externality"in The Years 199
Conclusion 240
Notes 252
Bibliography 295