Virginia Woolf and Capitalism
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1408-8 (ISBN)
Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf’s engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire in Woolf’s writing, this collection draws attention to her thinking about history, labour and economics and gives space for understandings of Woolf in the context of our own late-capitalist moment. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars range across Woolf's oeuvre in all its generic diversity, from her earliest short fiction and Night and Day to Three Guineas and Between the Acts, showcasing a range of critical approaches from the archival to the creative to the pedagogical. This collection demonstrates how productive and provocative thinking about Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction through the lens of capitalism can be for Woolf scholars.
Clara Jones is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (2016) and is currently at work on a new book on the politics of interwar women writers and activists, including Rosamond Lehmann, Ellen Wilkinson, Elizbeth Bowen, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Amabel Williams-Ellis.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Woolf and Capitalism: Introduction, Clara Jones
PART I: CLASS, EMPIRE, CAPITAL
1. ‘The eagle claws other peoples land, & goods’: Virginia Woolf on the desire to dominate, Michèle Barrett
2. Empire, Slavery and Capitalism, Anna Snaith
3. ‘my comfortable capitalistic head’: Virginia Woolf on Consumption, Co-operation and Motherhood, Charlotte Taylor Suppé
4. Biometric Feminism: A Room of One’s Own and The Politics of Intelligence, Natasha Periyan
5. ‘Merchant of this city’: Capitalism and the Liturgies of Peace and War in Jacob’s Room, Charles Andrews
PART II: LABOUR AND THE MARKETPLACE
6. Between the Houses: Woolf and the Property Market, Rachel Bowlby
7. Publishing and Capitalism at the Hogarth Press, Nicola Wilson
8. ‘It’s rather distinguished to be as ordinary as I am.’ Woolf’s Working Women Writers, Bryony Randall
9. The Literary Public Sphere in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, Stanislava Dikova
10. Capitalism and Woolf’s Beyond-Work, Evelyn Chan
11. Virginia Woolf: A Sound Investment, Brenda R. Silver
CODA: CRITICAL/CREATIVE APPROACHES
12. Scrapbooking the Present Day: The Three Guineas Scrapbooks, Helen Tyson
13. Work Cut Out, Kabe Wilson
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.06.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Virginia Woolf – Variations |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-1408-3 / 1399514083 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-1408-8 / 9781399514088 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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