Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy

Revisiting Virginia Woolf''s most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf''s writing prompts us to re-examine the meaning of intimacy. In Högberg''s readings of Jacob''s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, intimacy is revealed to inhere not just in close relations with the ones we know and love, but primarily within those unsettling encounters which suspend our comfor...