Virginia Woolf
Critical and Primary Sources
Published on 26. November 2020
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978-1-4742-7980-2 (ISBN)
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Bringing together over 70 influential critical articles, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is a collection of significant academic writing on the work of the great modernist writer, Virginia Woolf.
Beginning with the academic rediscovery of Woolf in the mid-1970s, this collection charts the development of Woolf scholarship up to 2015. It comprises examinations of Woolf's fiction and non-fictional writing, important manuscript and archival discoveries and biographical analyses, as well as critical work on Woolf's feminism, aesthetics and cultural writing.
Each volume includes a substantial contextualising introduction surveying Woolf studies in the decade covered. Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential academic resource for scholars and common readers alike.
Beginning with the academic rediscovery of Woolf in the mid-1970s, this collection charts the development of Woolf scholarship up to 2015. It comprises examinations of Woolf's fiction and non-fictional writing, important manuscript and archival discoveries and biographical analyses, as well as critical work on Woolf's feminism, aesthetics and cultural writing.
Each volume includes a substantial contextualising introduction surveying Woolf studies in the decade covered. Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential academic resource for scholars and common readers alike.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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College/higher education
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 94 mm
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3060 gr
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978-1-4742-7980-2 (9781474279802)
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Vara S. Neverow is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University, USA. She is co-editor of Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014) and editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany since 2003.
Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, USA. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (2010) and co-editor of multiple volumes, most recently Politics, Mobility, and Identity in Travel Writing (2015), Representing the Modern Animal in Culture (2014) and Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Gill Lowe is Visiting Fellow in English at the University of Suffolk, UK. She is the author of Versions of Julia: Five Biographical Constructions (2005) and editor of Hyde Park Gate News, the Stephen Family Newspaper (2005). She is co-editor of Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Kathryn Simpson is an independent scholar. Her previous books include Virginia Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf, (2008). She is co-editor of Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, USA. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (2010) and co-editor of multiple volumes, most recently Politics, Mobility, and Identity in Travel Writing (2015), Representing the Modern Animal in Culture (2014) and Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Gill Lowe is Visiting Fellow in English at the University of Suffolk, UK. She is the author of Versions of Julia: Five Biographical Constructions (2005) and editor of Hyde Park Gate News, the Stephen Family Newspaper (2005). She is co-editor of Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Kathryn Simpson is an independent scholar. Her previous books include Virginia Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf, (2008). She is co-editor of Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2014).
Content
Volume 1: 1975-1984
General Editor's Introduction
Chronology of Woolf's Life
Chronological List of Woolf's Publications
A Chronological History of Woolfian Community
Introduction, Vara S. Neverow
1. "To Crush Him in Our Own Country": The Political Thought of Virginia Woolf, Berenice Carroll
2. The Whole Contention of Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Revisited, Beth Daugherty
3. Lighting the Cave: The Relationship Between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo
4. The Voyage Out, Avrom Fleishman
5. Virginia Woolf and the Art of Madness, Susan M. Kenney and Edwin J. Kenney, Jr.
6. Jacob's Room as Comedy: Woolf's Parodic Bildungsroman, Judy Little
7. 'Combining "The Advantages of Fact and Fiction": Virginia Woolf's Biographies of Vita Sackville West, Flush and Roger Fry', Thomas S. W. Lewis
8. Gallant Red Brick and Plain China: Teaching A Room of One's Own, Martha McClintock Folsom
9. Mrs. Dalloway: The Repetition as the Raising of the Dead, J. Hillis Miller
10. Nature and History in The Years, James Naremore
11. Tradition and Revision: The Classic City Novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Susan Squier
12. Spatial Form and Color in The Waves, Jack F. Stewart
13. The Celebration of Eros: Greek Concepts of Love and Beauty in To The Lighthouse, Jean Wyatt
14. Between the Acts and the Coming of War, Alex Zwerdling
Bibliography
Volume 2: 1985-1994
Introduction, Jeanne Dubino
1. "Cam the wicked": Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as Her Father's Daughter, Elizabeth Abel
2. The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer
3. The Subject in Jacob's Room, Edward L. Bishop
4. Flush and the Literary Canon: The Value of Popular Appeal, Pamela L. Caughie
5. Virginia Woolf and the Imperial Gaze: A Glance Askance, Michelle Cliff
6. The Politics of Comic Modes in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Melba Cuddy-Keane
7. Ideology into Fiction: Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past", Emily Dalgarno
8. "What Fools We Were!" Virginia Woolf's "A Society", Susan Dick
9. Incest, Erasure, and The Years, David Eberly
10. A Room of One's Own, Personal Criticism, and the Essay, Anne Fernald
11. Disfigured Figures: Virginia Woolf's Disabled List, David Galef
12. The Midday Topos in Mrs. Dalloway, Molly Hoff
13. Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Mark Hussey
14. The Whole Achievement in Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader, Georgia Johnston
15. "If I saw you would you kiss me?" Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sherron E. Knopp
16. 'And Darwin says they are nearer the cow': Evolutionary Discourse in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out, Elizabeth G. Lambert
17. Britannia Rules The Waves, Jane Marcus
18. Through Formalism: Feminism and Virginia Woolf's Relation to Bloomsbury Aesthetics, Christopher Reed
19. Introduction to The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels, Lucio P. Ruotolo
20. The Word Split Its Husk: Woolf's Double Vision of Modernist Language, Bonnie Kime Scott
Bibliography
Volume 3: 1995-2004
Introduction, Kathryn Simpson
1. Exposing the "Nerves of Language": Virginia Woolf, Charles Mauron, and the Affinity Between Aesthetics and Illness, Kimberly Engdahl Coates
2. Virginia Woolf in the Pay of Booksellers: Commerce, Privacy, Professionalism, Orlando, Patrick Collier
3. Reading Uncommonly: Virginia Woolf and the Practice of Reading, Kate Flint
4. Virginia Woolf and Post-Impressionism: French Art, English Theory, and Feminist Practice, Jane Goldman
5. Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Years, Clare Hanson
6. The Ethics of Indecency: Censorship, Sexuality, and the Voice of the Academy in the Narration of Jacob's Room, Susan C. Harris
7. From Hubble's Telescope to Virginia Woolf's "The Searchlight", Holly Henry
8. Revisiting Woolf's Representations of Androgyny: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation, Karen Kaivola
9. Modernism, Subjectivity, and Narrative Form: Abstraction in The Waves, Tamar Katz
10. The Jew in the Bath: Imperiled Imagination in Woolf's The Years, Maren Linett
11. Links into Fences: The Subtext of Class Division in Mrs. Dalloway, Natania Rosenfeld
12. Locating a Native Englishness in Virginia Woolf's "The London Scene", Sonita Sarker
13. Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Space: "The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection", Tracy Seeley
14. Of Fanciers, Footnotes, and Fascism: Virginia Woolf's Flush, Anna Snaith
15. Name that Face, Alice Staveley
16. Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World, Louise Westling
17. Woolf, Postcards, and the Elision of Race: Colonizing Women in The Voyage Out, Mark Wollaeger
Bibliography
Volume 4: 2005-2015
Introduction, Gill Lowe
1. Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature, Christina Alt
2. "Wretched Sparrows": Protectionists, Suffragettes and the Irish, David Bradshaw
3. The Conversation Behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable in Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs
4. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing: Woolf, Medicine and Professionalization, Evelyn T. Chan
5. Virginia Woolf's Feminist Historiography in Orlando, Jane de Gay
6. "'Myself'- It Was Impossible": Queering History in Between the Acts, Erica Delsandro
7. Woolf's Exploration of "the Outer and the Inner": a Spatial Analysis of The Years, Elizabeth F. Evans
8. Writing Was Her Fighting: Three Guineas as a Pacifist Response to Total War, J. Ashley Foster
9. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room, Christine Froula
10. Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and Race, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
11. Modernist Life Writing and Nonhuman Lives: Ecologies of Experience in Virginia Woolf's Flush, David Herman
12. "Memory Holes" or "Heterotopias": The Bloomsbury Photographs, Maggie Humm
13. Virginia Woolf and Poor Women, Alison Light
14. "In the Circle of the Lens": Woolf's "Telescope" Story, Scene-making and Memory, Laura Marcus
15. Boredom and Individualism in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, Allison Pease
16. Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space, Christine Reynier
17. "I Meant Nothing by the Lighthouse": Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Negation, Roberta Rubenstein
18. "Nature, Who Has Played So Many Queer Tricks Upon Us": Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf, Derek Ryan
19. "Here Again is the Usual Door": the Modernity of Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting", Randi Saloman
20. A Hogarth Press Timeline, Helen Southworth
21. Shell Shock and Hysterical Fugue, or Why Mrs Dalloway Likes Bach, Emma Sutton
22. Meals and Mourning in Woolf's The Waves, Janine Utell
23. The Hogarth Press, Digital Humanities, and Collaboration: Introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth and Claire Battershill
Bibliography
General Editor's Introduction
Chronology of Woolf's Life
Chronological List of Woolf's Publications
A Chronological History of Woolfian Community
Introduction, Vara S. Neverow
1. "To Crush Him in Our Own Country": The Political Thought of Virginia Woolf, Berenice Carroll
2. The Whole Contention of Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Revisited, Beth Daugherty
3. Lighting the Cave: The Relationship Between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo
4. The Voyage Out, Avrom Fleishman
5. Virginia Woolf and the Art of Madness, Susan M. Kenney and Edwin J. Kenney, Jr.
6. Jacob's Room as Comedy: Woolf's Parodic Bildungsroman, Judy Little
7. 'Combining "The Advantages of Fact and Fiction": Virginia Woolf's Biographies of Vita Sackville West, Flush and Roger Fry', Thomas S. W. Lewis
8. Gallant Red Brick and Plain China: Teaching A Room of One's Own, Martha McClintock Folsom
9. Mrs. Dalloway: The Repetition as the Raising of the Dead, J. Hillis Miller
10. Nature and History in The Years, James Naremore
11. Tradition and Revision: The Classic City Novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Susan Squier
12. Spatial Form and Color in The Waves, Jack F. Stewart
13. The Celebration of Eros: Greek Concepts of Love and Beauty in To The Lighthouse, Jean Wyatt
14. Between the Acts and the Coming of War, Alex Zwerdling
Bibliography
Volume 2: 1985-1994
Introduction, Jeanne Dubino
1. "Cam the wicked": Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as Her Father's Daughter, Elizabeth Abel
2. The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer
3. The Subject in Jacob's Room, Edward L. Bishop
4. Flush and the Literary Canon: The Value of Popular Appeal, Pamela L. Caughie
5. Virginia Woolf and the Imperial Gaze: A Glance Askance, Michelle Cliff
6. The Politics of Comic Modes in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Melba Cuddy-Keane
7. Ideology into Fiction: Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past", Emily Dalgarno
8. "What Fools We Were!" Virginia Woolf's "A Society", Susan Dick
9. Incest, Erasure, and The Years, David Eberly
10. A Room of One's Own, Personal Criticism, and the Essay, Anne Fernald
11. Disfigured Figures: Virginia Woolf's Disabled List, David Galef
12. The Midday Topos in Mrs. Dalloway, Molly Hoff
13. Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Mark Hussey
14. The Whole Achievement in Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader, Georgia Johnston
15. "If I saw you would you kiss me?" Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sherron E. Knopp
16. 'And Darwin says they are nearer the cow': Evolutionary Discourse in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out, Elizabeth G. Lambert
17. Britannia Rules The Waves, Jane Marcus
18. Through Formalism: Feminism and Virginia Woolf's Relation to Bloomsbury Aesthetics, Christopher Reed
19. Introduction to The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels, Lucio P. Ruotolo
20. The Word Split Its Husk: Woolf's Double Vision of Modernist Language, Bonnie Kime Scott
Bibliography
Volume 3: 1995-2004
Introduction, Kathryn Simpson
1. Exposing the "Nerves of Language": Virginia Woolf, Charles Mauron, and the Affinity Between Aesthetics and Illness, Kimberly Engdahl Coates
2. Virginia Woolf in the Pay of Booksellers: Commerce, Privacy, Professionalism, Orlando, Patrick Collier
3. Reading Uncommonly: Virginia Woolf and the Practice of Reading, Kate Flint
4. Virginia Woolf and Post-Impressionism: French Art, English Theory, and Feminist Practice, Jane Goldman
5. Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Years, Clare Hanson
6. The Ethics of Indecency: Censorship, Sexuality, and the Voice of the Academy in the Narration of Jacob's Room, Susan C. Harris
7. From Hubble's Telescope to Virginia Woolf's "The Searchlight", Holly Henry
8. Revisiting Woolf's Representations of Androgyny: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation, Karen Kaivola
9. Modernism, Subjectivity, and Narrative Form: Abstraction in The Waves, Tamar Katz
10. The Jew in the Bath: Imperiled Imagination in Woolf's The Years, Maren Linett
11. Links into Fences: The Subtext of Class Division in Mrs. Dalloway, Natania Rosenfeld
12. Locating a Native Englishness in Virginia Woolf's "The London Scene", Sonita Sarker
13. Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Space: "The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection", Tracy Seeley
14. Of Fanciers, Footnotes, and Fascism: Virginia Woolf's Flush, Anna Snaith
15. Name that Face, Alice Staveley
16. Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World, Louise Westling
17. Woolf, Postcards, and the Elision of Race: Colonizing Women in The Voyage Out, Mark Wollaeger
Bibliography
Volume 4: 2005-2015
Introduction, Gill Lowe
1. Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature, Christina Alt
2. "Wretched Sparrows": Protectionists, Suffragettes and the Irish, David Bradshaw
3. The Conversation Behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable in Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs
4. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing: Woolf, Medicine and Professionalization, Evelyn T. Chan
5. Virginia Woolf's Feminist Historiography in Orlando, Jane de Gay
6. "'Myself'- It Was Impossible": Queering History in Between the Acts, Erica Delsandro
7. Woolf's Exploration of "the Outer and the Inner": a Spatial Analysis of The Years, Elizabeth F. Evans
8. Writing Was Her Fighting: Three Guineas as a Pacifist Response to Total War, J. Ashley Foster
9. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room, Christine Froula
10. Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and Race, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
11. Modernist Life Writing and Nonhuman Lives: Ecologies of Experience in Virginia Woolf's Flush, David Herman
12. "Memory Holes" or "Heterotopias": The Bloomsbury Photographs, Maggie Humm
13. Virginia Woolf and Poor Women, Alison Light
14. "In the Circle of the Lens": Woolf's "Telescope" Story, Scene-making and Memory, Laura Marcus
15. Boredom and Individualism in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, Allison Pease
16. Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space, Christine Reynier
17. "I Meant Nothing by the Lighthouse": Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Negation, Roberta Rubenstein
18. "Nature, Who Has Played So Many Queer Tricks Upon Us": Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf, Derek Ryan
19. "Here Again is the Usual Door": the Modernity of Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting", Randi Saloman
20. A Hogarth Press Timeline, Helen Southworth
21. Shell Shock and Hysterical Fugue, or Why Mrs Dalloway Likes Bach, Emma Sutton
22. Meals and Mourning in Woolf's The Waves, Janine Utell
23. The Hogarth Press, Digital Humanities, and Collaboration: Introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth and Claire Battershill
Bibliography