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…mehr
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.
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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
