
Virginia Woolf
Twenty-First-Century Approaches
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 26. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4744-1413-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction. These eleven newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early twenty-first century. Divided into five parts. Self and Identity; Language and Translation; Culture and Commodification; Human, Animal and Nonhuman; and Genders, Sexualities and Multiplicities, the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective, provisional, and contingent nature of Woolf's work. The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity, and language and translation from multiple angles, including shifting textualities, culture and the marketplace, critical animal studies, and discourses that fracture and revise gender and sexuality.
Key Features: - Extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of Virginia Woolf- Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical (and contradictory) author- Explores multiple meanings related to the conjoined, fused, connected and evolving nature of Woolf studies- Considers new configurations, new pairings, and new ways of placing ideas in tension around Woolf's work for a postmodern, postmillennial era
Editor bio: Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone. Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, School of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk. Vara Neverow is Professor of English and Women's Studies, English Department, Engleman Hall, Southern Connecticut State University. Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Key Features: - Extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of Virginia Woolf- Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical (and contradictory) author- Explores multiple meanings related to the conjoined, fused, connected and evolving nature of Woolf studies- Considers new configurations, new pairings, and new ways of placing ideas in tension around Woolf's work for a postmodern, postmillennial era
Editor bio: Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone. Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, School of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk. Vara Neverow is Professor of English and Women's Studies, English Department, Engleman Hall, Southern Connecticut State University. Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Reviews / Votes
It presents new ideas about Woolf and new connections to those who came before-and after-her. By doing so, it adds a new level of meaning to the way we read her, the way we read about her, and the way we write about her, too. -- Paula Maggio * Virginia Woolf Miscellany 91 * Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches brings together a lively variety of original readings that call upon us to reimagine once again a writer, reader, and feminist who only becomes more relevant and necessary as time goes on. -- Janine Utell, Widener University * WOOLF STUDIES ANNUAL Volume 22 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
379 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1413-5 (9781474414135)
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Persons
Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), guest editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 50 (1997) and co-editor, with Beth C. Rosenberg, of Virginia Woolf and the Essay (St. Martin's Press, 1997). Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, School of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk. Vara Neverow is a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room (Harcourt, 2008) and, with Mark Hussey, of Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives (Pace University Press, 1994), Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations (Pace University Press, 1993) and Virginia Woolf Miscellanies (Pace University Press, 1992). Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is the author of Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Virginia Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2013)
Editor
Professor of English and Global StudiesAppalachian State University
Senior Lecturer of EnglishUniversity Campus Suffolk, School of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk
Professor of English and Women's StudiesSouthern Connecticut State University
Senior LecturerCardiff Metropolitan University