CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ANGLO- AMERICAINES
Tropismes
L 'ERRANCE
Numéro 5
publié avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres
Université Paris -X
1991Walking,
women and writing :
Virginia Woolf as flaneuse
Tre first part of my title is not only meant to allude to the
questions Woolf raises all the time, in her novels and in her essays,
about the relations between women and writing, art and sex, fiction
and femininity, and to the way in which she has been taken up asa key
source for enlightenment on such issues ; "Walking, women and
writing” is also intended to recall the expression "wine, women and
song". Not to suggest that the pleasures of wine are replaced for Woolf
by the perhaps less obvious pleasures of the obligatory constitutional :
after all, it is she who, having experienced the differences in dining
facilities between two "Oxbridge" colleges, one for each sex, demands