Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Modernism and vision -- Aesthetic vision and visual culture -- Woolf studies and vision -- 1 Aesthetic Vision and Experience -- 1.1 The semantics of seeing in Woolf's essays -- 1.2 Immediacy and abstraction in The Voyage Out -- 1.3 The transformation of vision: To the Lighthouse and the immanence of art -- 1.3.1 Immanence and ideal in Woolf's reading of Platonism -- 1.3.2 The dynamics of the image in To the Lighthouse -- 1.3.3 Light, love and perfection: Platonic eros and the dynamics of narrative in To the Lighthouse -- 2 Modalities of the Gaze: Windows, Mirrors, and the Veil -- 2.1 The window and the novel as narrative space -- 2.1.1 The mediated gaze in The Voyage Out -- 2.1.2 The multiplicity of symbolic form in Jacob's Room -- 2.1.3 The dialectics of perspective: windows in Mrs. Dalloway -- 2.2 "The veil of words" and the poetics of the diaphanous -- 2.2.1 The diaphanous in Modernist aesthetics -- 2.2.2 Twilight and fog: vague and fading vision -- 2.2.3 Seeing through tears -- 2.3 The looking glass and the reflection of difference -- 2.3.1 Beyond the looking glass: the surface and "the other side of life" -- 2.3.2 Water and glass in Between the Acts -- 3 The Temporality of Aesthetic Vision -- 3.1 Modernist temporalities of the view -- 3.2 Beginnings: the sketch and the scene -- 3.3 Jacob's Room and the space of time -- 3.4 "Was that the end?" - Between the Acts and the paradox of vision in time -- 3.4.1 Vision and silence -- 3.4.2 The rhythm of vision in time -- 4 The Poetry of Aesthetic Vision in The Waves -- 4.1 Visibility and form in the Interludes -- 4.2 The "little language" and the private view -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Texts and Editions -- Secondary Sources.