The modernist context -- Through a glass, Longingly / Joanne Trautmann Banks -- "Excursions into the literature of a foreign country": Crossing cultural boundaries in the short fiction / Nena Skrbic -- Conversations at Kew: Reading Woolf's feminist narratology / Alice Staveley -- The lesbian intertext of Woolf's short fiction / Krystyna Colburn -- Collecting, shopping, and reading: Virginia Woolf's stories about objects / Ruth Hoberman -- Crossing generic boundaries -- "A corridor leading from Mrs. Dalloway to a new book": transforming stories, bending genres / Beth Rigel Daugherty -- "A view of one's own": writing women's lives and the early short stories / Anna Snaith -- Virginia Woolf's shorter fictional explorations of the external world: "closely united...immensely divided" / Michelle Levy -- Verbal painting in "Blue & Green" and "Monday or Tuesday" / Kathryn N. Benzel -- "Cut deep and scored thick with meaning": frame and focus in Woolf's later short stories / Julia Briggs