Lillian D. Bloom

Bio: Lillian D. Bloom is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 4 citations.

Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature

Abstract: W hat London seems to be suggesting, then, in “T o Build a Fire,” is not any kind of animalistic return for man to a presymbolic state of existence in order to survive; on the contrary, he seems to strongly imply that animals survive through instinct; men of limited mental capacity fail; and that human beings who exercise good judgment, tempered with emotional insights are the human beings who win out over a hostile environment. J a m e s K . B o w e n , Southern Oregon College

"Locked in a Room of One's Own?": Querying the Quest for Keys to Woolf's "Madness"

Abstract: Virginia Woolf has been represented as the origin of the feminist author and scholar \"the mother of us all,\"1 and as \"the real-life epitome of that feminine archetype, the mad wife\" (Showalter 1977: 276). If \"the mother of us all\" is also an archetypal \"mad wife,\" we have problems. These are especially deep-rooted if, as Sue Roe suggests, \"[s]he has been so readily and so ubiquitously appropriated to the feminist literary Cause that it sometimes seems as though every feminist insight has its origin somewhere in the work of Virginia Woolf (1990: 3). To address these problems, our feminist roots in \"madness,\" I believe that we need to disentangle some of the strings wound around Woolf studies. In so doing, it is my aim to foreground the complex web of gendered, pathologizing discursive practices that have produced, no doubt unwittingly, a seemingly unending and often unreflexive quest a kind of binding Gordian knot in Woolf studies attempts to diagnose