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Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf - Karina Jakubowicz

Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Nature, Modernity and the Politics of Space
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9453-3 (ISBN)
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Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens.
This study reads Woolf’s fictional gardens in light of her development as a writer, tracing these spaces alongside elements of her personal life and her changing understanding of nature and space. In the course of this work, these locations are revealed to be emotionally and imaginatively charged, acting as vehicles for powerful sentiments and vital intellectual arguments. Through extensive examinations of texts including The Voyage Out, ‘Kew Gardens’, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, this book frames Woolf’s literary gardens as expressive and innovative spheres that formed part of wider early twentieth-century attempts to reimagine nature and domesticity as vibrant, even radical, facets of modern life.

Karina Jakubowicz is an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University New York and Florida State University. She is a graduate of University College London, Clare College Cambridge, and Trinity College Dublin. She was the recipient of an academic scholarship from Trinity College Dublin and was the winner of the 2017 Katherine Mansfield essay prize. Her numerous publications concern the work of 20th century writers and focus primarily on the role of nature and space in their work. She also creates and produces the Virginia Woolf Podcast.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction
1. ‘Life in a garden’: Landscapes of Female Development in The Voyage Out

2. ‘Dangerous ground’: The Origins of ‘Kew Gardens’

3. ‘Not in so many words': Cut Flowers and Commemoration in Mrs Dalloway

4. Moving the Tree: Painting the Artist’s Garden in To the Lighthouse

5. ‘Stuck together with faded leaves': Growing Gardens in The Waves

6. ‘A garden full of lust and bees': Queering Woolf’s Literary Gardens

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2026
Zusatzinfo 8 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Garten
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4744-9453-6 / 1474494536
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-9453-3 / 9781474494533
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