Research Catalog

Title

Virginia Woolf in context / edited by Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman.

Publication

Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Randall, Bryony.
• Goldman, Jane, 1960-

Description

xviii, 502 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"As a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context - whether historical, cultural, or theoretical - is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies, and modernism and postcolonial studies"--

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Theory and Critical Reception: 1. Historicising Woolf: context studies / Michael H. Whitworth; 2. Woolf: after lives / Mark Hussey; 3. Woolf and modernist studies / Bryony Randall; 4. Woolf and realism / Pam Morris; 5. Woolf and intertextuality / Anne E. Fernald; 6. Woolf and 'theory' / Claire Colebrook; 7. Woolf and feminist theory: Woolf's feminism comes in waves / Lisa Coleman; 8. Woolf and psychoanalytic theory / Sanja Bahun; 9. Woolf and theories of postcolonialism / Sonita Sarker; 10. Woolf and theories of sexuality / Patricia Morgne Cramer -- Part II. Historical and Cultural Context: 11. Woolf and modernity: crisis and catoptrics / Randall Stevenson; 12. Woolf: war and peace / Jane Lilienfeld; 13. Woolf's Bloomsbury / Kathryn Simpson; 14. Woolf, economics, and class politics: learning to count / Elena Gualtieri; 15. Feminist politics: 'repetition; and 'burning' in Three guineas (Making it new) / Judith Allen; 16. Race, empire. and Ireland / Anna Snaith; 17. Woolf and anti-Semitism: is Jacog Jewish? / Heidi Stalla; 18. Woolf's London: London's Woolf / David Bradshaw; 19. Regionalism, nature, and the environment / Bonnie Kime Scott; 20. Science and technology / Holly Henry; 21. Woolf and the arts: homage, afterlife, and the originating text / Suzanne Bellamy; 22. Music / Emma Sutton; 23. Cinema and photography / Maggie Humm; 24. Woolf and theatre / E.H. Wright; 25. Woolf and publishing: why the Hogarth Press matters / Drew Patrick Shannon; 26. 'Poetics-- will fit me for a reviewer!': Aristotle and Woolf's journalism / Jim Stewart; 27. Woolf and Freud: the Kleinian turn / Perry Meisel; 28. Woolf and lesbian culture: queering Woolf queering / Madelyn Detloff; 29. Woolf, letter writing and diary-keeping / Ian Blyth; 30. Woolf and contemporary philosophy / Derek Ryan; 31. The Ekstasis of influence: Woolf;s Mediterranean experience / Carole Bourne-Taylor; 32. Woolf and Russian literature / Darya Protopopova; 33. Woolf and America / Thaine Stearns; 34. Woolf and the Victorians / Margaret Homans; 35. Strange cries and ancienct songs: Woolf's Greek and politics of intelligibity / Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 36. Woolf and eugenics / Linden Peach; 37. Woolf and commodities / Ruth Hoberman; 38. Woolf and the private sphere / Jessica Berman.

Call Number

JFE 13-2711

ISBN

• 9781107003613
• 110700361X

LCCN

2012013664

OCLC

783862073

Title

Virginia Woolf in context / edited by Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Randall, Bryony.

Goldman, Jane, 1960-

Research Call Number

JFE 13-2711