Machine generated contents note: Woolf's Essays and their Critical Appraisal -- Woolf's Essays in Good Housekeeping Magazine Composition, Publication and Reception -- Towards a Definition of the Poetics and Politics of the Essays in Good Housekeeping Magazine -- pt. I The Good Housekeeping Essays as Intermedial Essays -- 1.The Humble Art of Description in the `Six Articles on London Life' -- Introduction -- The Documentary Impulse -- Practicing the Art of Description in `The Docks of London' and `Oxford Street Tide' -- Renewing the Art of Description in Good Housekeeping Magazine -- Developing the `Critical Attitude' -- 2.The Art of Photography in the Good Housekeeping Essays -- The Photographic Method: `The Docks of London' as an Apparatus for the Other Essays -- The Photographic Method in `Great Men's Houses' -- The Photographic Method in `Abbeys and Cathedrals' -- 3.The Art of Architecture in the Good Housekeeping Essays -- Architecture and Democracy in `"This is the House of Commons'" and `Portrait of a Londoner' -- Intermediality and Woolf's Ethics of Doubt -- Constructing the Essay as an Intermedial Form -- pt. II `The Common Pool' -- 4.Woolf's Ghosts in the Good Housekeeping Essays Woolf's Plea for Democracy: A Dialogue with her Forebears -- The Intermedial Dialogue with John Ruskin -- `Adaptive Reuse' and the Political Debates of the 1930s -- 5.Virginia Woolf and Heritage -- Woolf's Survival Theory -- Poverty as Usus: The `Common Pool' -- An Ethical Posture? -- Poverty as an Economic and Aesthetic Concept -- Woolf and Benjamin -- pt. III Reassessing the Good Housekeeping Essays -- 6.The Good Housekeeping Essays as Cultural and Creative Essays -- The Good Housekeeping Essays as Part and Parcel of Woolf's Essays -- The Theoretical Thrust of Woolf's Essays -- Woolf's `Humble' Theory -- 7.The Good Housekeeping Essays at the Crossroads -- The Photographic Turn -- Implementing the Theory of Usus -- Constructing History as Trace -- The Political Turn -- Conclusion -- The Good Housekeeping essays and The Arcades Project -- Re framing the essay.
