A Companion to Virginia Woolf (eBook)

Jessica Berman (Herausgeber)

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2016
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-45793-1 (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

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) and of the Modernist Latitudes book series. She also served as president of the Modernist Studies Association in 2016-17.

Inhalt

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, and Writing 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 Approaching Woolf 217

16 Virginia Woolf 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 Digital Woolf 263
Mark Hussey

20 Woolf and Crip Theory 277
Madelyn Detloff

21 Woolf and the Visual 291
Maggie Humm

22 Feminist Woolf 305
Pamela L. Caughie

23 Ecocritical Woolf 319
Bonnie Kime Scott

24 Woolf, War, Violence, History, and ...Peace 333
Sarah Cole

25 Queer Woolf 347
Melanie Micir

Part III Woolf in the World 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
Geneviève Brassard

32 Reading Woolf in India 453
Supriya Chaudhuri

33 Woolf in Hispanic Countries: Buenos Aires and Madrid 467
Laura M¯a Lojo-Rodríguez

Index 481

Rezensionen

"...Berman succeeds in showing the enormous relevance of contemporary approaches to Woolf studies, and of Woolf studies to global and transnational print culture, now and in her own time." - Mary Jean Corbett, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Number 96, Fall 2019-Fall 2020

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Notes on Contributors

Christina Alt is a Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. Her research centers on exchanges between modernist literature and science, particularly the biological sciences. She is the author of Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature (2010) and is currently writing a monograph on modernism and ecology.

Claire Battershill is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She has published articles on biography and autobiography at the Hogarth Press, contemporary writers' rooms, and theories of authorship. She is currently working on a book project entitled “Selling Real Lives: Biography in the Literary Marketplace, 1918–1939.”

Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001). With Paul K. Saint-Amour, she edits the Modernist Latitudes book series for Columbia University Press.

Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of How to Make It as a Woman (2004), Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992), and a book on literary house museums. She directs the Collective Biographies of Women online project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Geneviève Brassard is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Portland, where she teaches courses in twentieth-century British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures. She has published articles on Woolf, Austen, Bowen, Wharton, Sinclair, and Irene Rathbone.

Pamela L. Caughie is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. Her publications on Woolf include Virginia Woolf Writing the World (co-edited, 2015), Woolf Online (co-edited, 2013), Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (edited, 2000), Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism (1991), and contributions to several companions, collections, and journals.

Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor (Emerita) in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Her specializations include European Renaissance literature, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian cultural history, the novel, cinema, and theory. She has written on modernist movements in India and has translated modernist poetry and fiction.

Sarah Cole is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and the author of two books, At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (2012) and Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (2003), and of numerous articles. She is the co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Madelyn Detloff, Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University, is former vice president of the International Virginia Woolf Society and author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century (2009), as well as of essays in Hypatia, Women's Studies, ELN, Literature Compass, MMLA, and Modernism/Modernity.

Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. She has written widely on modernism and psychoanalysis; her most recent book is The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud (2010).

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus. She is the editor of the Cambridge Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2014) and author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006), and has published articles and reviews on Woolf, feminism, and modernism.

Susan Stanford Friedman is the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She publishes on modernism, feminist theory, narrative theory, migration studies, and world literature. She was founding co-editor of Contemporary Women's Writing. Recent books include Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity across Time (2015) and Comparisons: Theories, Approaches, Uses (2013).

Jane Garrity is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (2003); the co-editor, with Laura Doan, of Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture (2006); and the editor of “Queer Space,” a special issue for English Language Notes (2007). She is currently writing a monograph titled “Fashioning Bloomsbury.”

Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is a general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf and is editing Woolf's To the Lighthouse and co-editing A Room of One's Own for the series. She is the author of With You in the Hebrides: Virginia Woolf and Scotland (2013); The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006); Modernism, 1910–1945: Image to Apocalypse (2004); and The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-impressionism and the Politics of the Visual (1998). She is currently writing a book entitled Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog.

Maggie Humm is Emeritus Professor at the University of East London. Her publications on Woolf include The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts (2010), Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (2005), and Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Cinema and Photography (2002).

Mark Hussey is Professor of English at Pace University in New York. He is editor of Woolf Studies Annual and has published widely on Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. Among his current projects are Modernism's Print Cultures (with Faye Hammill) and a biography of Clive Bell.

Tamar Katz is Associate Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (2000). She is working on a book entitled “City Memories: Modernism and Urban Nostalgia in New York City.”

Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in English at the Department of English and German, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Some of her publications on Woolf include Moving across a Century: Women's Short Fiction from Virginia Woolf to Ali Smith (2012) and “‘A Gaping Mouth but No Words’: Virginia Woolf Enters the Land of Butterflies,” in The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe (2002).

Marina MacKay is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow of St. Peter's College, University of Oxford. Her publications include The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel (2011), Modernism and World War II (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (co-edited with Lyndsey Stonebridge, 2007).

Laura Marcus, FBA, is Goldsmith's Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. Her publications include Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (2014); The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007), which was awarded the 2008 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association; Virginia Woolf: Writers and Their Work (1997); Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994); and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004).

Melanie Micir is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is also an affiliate faculty member in women's, gender, and sexuality studies. She is finishing a book about queer feminist biographical acts.

Jean Mills is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author of Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism (2014). Her most recent essay is “To the Lighthouse: The Critical Heritage,” in The Cambridge Companion to “To the Lighthouse” (2015).

Elizabeth Outka is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic (2009); her current project, “Raising the Dead: War, Plague, Magic, Modernism,” explores how World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic radically shifted perceptions of the corpse.

Nels Pearson is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Fairfield University. He is the author of Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett (2015) and...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Room of One's Own • Between the Acts • Bloomsbury Group • British Literature • Dresher Center for the Humanities • Englische Literatur • Englischsprachige Literatur • English literature • feminism and literature • Feminist writers • Flush • gender studies and literature • Hogarth Press • International Conference on Virginia Woolf • International Virginia Woolf Society • Jacob's Room • Literary Theory • Literatur • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft • Modernist Literature • modernist studies • Modernist Studies Association • Modern Literature • Mrs. Dalloway • New Modernist Studies • Orlando • Postcolonial literature • The Voyage Out • The Waves • The Years • Three Guineas • To the lighthouse • Twentieth century literature • Virginia Woolf Studies • women's studies • woolf studies • Woolf, Virginia
• ISBN-10: 1-118-45793-5 / 1118457935
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-45793-1 / 9781118457931