A Companion to Virginia Woolf
Published on 12. September 2018
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520 pages
978-1-118-45794-8 (ISBN)
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A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.
Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research
Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law
Explores the multiple trajectories Woolf's work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America
Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies
Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research
Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law
Explores the multiple trajectories Woolf's work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America
Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies
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A Companion to Virginia Woolf
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Jessica Berman
A Companion to Virginia Woolf
E-Book
01/2016
Wiley-Blackwell
€36.99
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Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), and co-editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2001). She is also co-editor of the Modernist Latitudes book series and second vice-president of the Modernist Studies Association, to succeed to vice-president (2015-16) and president (2016-17).
Content
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I Textual Encounters 11
1 The Lives of Houses: Woolf and Biography 13
Alison Booth
2 The Short Fiction 27
Laura Marcus
3 Silence and Cries: The Exotic Soundscape of The Voyage Out 41
Emma Sutton
4 The Transitory Space of Night and Day 55
Elizabeth Outka
5 Jacob's Room: Occasions of War, Representations of History 67
Vincent Sherry
6 Mrs. Dalloway: Of Clocks and Clouds 79
Paul K. Saint-Amour
7 A Passage to the Lighthouse 95
Maud Ellmann
8 Orlando's Queer Animals 109
Derek Ryan
9 Global Objects in The Waves 121
Jane Garrity
10 The Years and Contradictory Time 137
Anna Snaith
11 Between the Acts: Novels and Other Mass Media 151
Marina MacKay
12 Flush: A Biography: Speaking, Reading, andWriting with the Companion Species 163
Jane Goldman
13 Woolf's Essays, Diaries, and Letters 177
Anne E. Fernald
14 A Room of One's Own in the World: The Pre-life and After-life of Shakespeare's Sister 189
Susan Stanford Friedman
15 Three Guineas and the Politics of Interruption 203
Jessica Berman
Part II ApproachingWoolf 217
16 VirginiaWoolf and the Politics of Class 219
Jean Mills
17 Woolf and the Law 235
Ravit Reichman
18 Woolf and the Natural Sciences 249
Christina Alt
19 DigitalWoolf 263
Mark Hussey
20 Woolf and Crip Theory 277
Madelyn Detloff
21 Woolf and the Visual 291
Maggie Humm
22 FeministWoolf 305
Pamela L. Caughie
23 EcocriticalWoolf 319
Bonnie Kime Scott
24 Woolf,War, Violence, History, and ...Peace 333
Sarah Cole
25 QueerWoolf 347
Melanie Micir
Part III Woolf in theWorld 359
26 Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Intimacy 361
Jesse Wolfe
27 Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and Global Print Culture 377
Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth
28 Woolf's Urban Rhythms 397
Tamar Katz
29 Woolf and Geography 411
Andrew Thacker
30 Woolf's Spatial Aesthetics and Postcolonial Critique 427
Nels Pearson
31 Woolf in Translation 441
Genevieve Brassard
32 ReadingWoolf in India 453
Supriya Chaudhuri
33 Woolf in Hispanic Countries: Buenos Aires and Madrid 467
Laura Ma Lojo-Rodriguez
Index 481
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I Textual Encounters 11
1 The Lives of Houses: Woolf and Biography 13
Alison Booth
2 The Short Fiction 27
Laura Marcus
3 Silence and Cries: The Exotic Soundscape of The Voyage Out 41
Emma Sutton
4 The Transitory Space of Night and Day 55
Elizabeth Outka
5 Jacob's Room: Occasions of War, Representations of History 67
Vincent Sherry
6 Mrs. Dalloway: Of Clocks and Clouds 79
Paul K. Saint-Amour
7 A Passage to the Lighthouse 95
Maud Ellmann
8 Orlando's Queer Animals 109
Derek Ryan
9 Global Objects in The Waves 121
Jane Garrity
10 The Years and Contradictory Time 137
Anna Snaith
11 Between the Acts: Novels and Other Mass Media 151
Marina MacKay
12 Flush: A Biography: Speaking, Reading, andWriting with the Companion Species 163
Jane Goldman
13 Woolf's Essays, Diaries, and Letters 177
Anne E. Fernald
14 A Room of One's Own in the World: The Pre-life and After-life of Shakespeare's Sister 189
Susan Stanford Friedman
15 Three Guineas and the Politics of Interruption 203
Jessica Berman
Part II ApproachingWoolf 217
16 VirginiaWoolf and the Politics of Class 219
Jean Mills
17 Woolf and the Law 235
Ravit Reichman
18 Woolf and the Natural Sciences 249
Christina Alt
19 DigitalWoolf 263
Mark Hussey
20 Woolf and Crip Theory 277
Madelyn Detloff
21 Woolf and the Visual 291
Maggie Humm
22 FeministWoolf 305
Pamela L. Caughie
23 EcocriticalWoolf 319
Bonnie Kime Scott
24 Woolf,War, Violence, History, and ...Peace 333
Sarah Cole
25 QueerWoolf 347
Melanie Micir
Part III Woolf in theWorld 359
26 Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Intimacy 361
Jesse Wolfe
27 Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and Global Print Culture 377
Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth
28 Woolf's Urban Rhythms 397
Tamar Katz
29 Woolf and Geography 411
Andrew Thacker
30 Woolf's Spatial Aesthetics and Postcolonial Critique 427
Nels Pearson
31 Woolf in Translation 441
Genevieve Brassard
32 ReadingWoolf in India 453
Supriya Chaudhuri
33 Woolf in Hispanic Countries: Buenos Aires and Madrid 467
Laura Ma Lojo-Rodriguez
Index 481