Patricia Laurence

Courses (selected)

Spring, 2008. Victorian-Modernist Conversations Brooklyn College, English Department.

Spring, 2007: Modernism and "Orientalism" Brooklyn College (graduate), English Department,

Spring, 2006: Victorian Conversations (graduate), Brooklyn College, English Department, Thursdays 4:00-6:00.

Fall, 2005: Virginia Woolf Seminar, Mercantile Library, NYC.

Spring, 2005: Telling Stories, Telling Lives: An Introduction to Oral History Graduate Center, External Programs, Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00.

Fall, 2004: Modernist Women Writers: Space and Place (graduate), Brooklyn College, English Department, Wednesdays, 4:30-6:10, Boylan Hall.

Spring 2004, Virginia Woolf (graduate), Brooklyn College, English Department, Wednesdays, 6:20-8:00, Boylan Hall, Room 3/146.




Books
BOOKS Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003)
It is a rich tale told with critical acumen
--Peter Stansky, Stanford University
The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (Stanford University Press, 1992)
“In its theoretical treatment of ‘silence’ and in the originality of its explications, this study establishes new directions for Woolf studies.”
--Lucio P. Ruotolo, Stanford University
Monograph
MONOGRAPH Julian Bell: The Violent Pacifist (Cecil Woolf, Bloomsbury Heritage Series, 2006)
Julian Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf, embodied the contradictions of his generation in 1930s England. Under the threat of fascism, his "peace mind" grew into a "war mind." This monograph traces his transformation.

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