Virginia Woolf in Context
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Part of Literature in Context
- Editors:
- Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow
- Jane Goldman, University of Glasgow
- Date Published: February 2013
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107003613
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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.
Read more- Largest number of essays on Virginia Woolf ever offered in a single collection
- Offers original interventions from major and emerging Woolf scholars
- Covers an exceptionally wide range of theoretical and historical contexts for the study of Woolf's writing
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'… Virginia Woolf in Context is a useful addition to the flourishing field of Woolf studies. It covers an array of contexts, brings together numerous internationally renowned scholars, and highlights developing critical trends. Not only will it be of great assistance to those encountering Woolf's work for the first time, but [it] will also service well-versed scholars. The 'Literature in Context' series published by Cambridge University Press is fast becoming the criterion against which other collections are judged and, along with 'The Cambridge Companion' series, will prove to be an indispensable resource.' Jeremy Diaper, Virginia Woolf Bulletin
See more reviews'Similar to other books in Cambridge University Press's Literature in Context series, this collection places a particular writer within the various contexts that inform his or her work … this collection provides the contexts necessary to understand Woolf's more difficult works without prescribing the view one should take of these works - and Woolf herself.' Molly Youngkin, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920
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- Date Published: February 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107003613
- length: 522 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33 mm
- weight: 0.93kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface Jane Goldman and Bryony Randall
Part I. Theory and Critical Reception:
1. Historicising Woolf: context studies Michael Whitworth
2. Virginia Woolf: after lives Mark Hussey
3. Woolf and modernist studies Bryony Randall
4. Woolf and realism Pam Morris
5. Woolf and intertextuality Anne Fernald
6. Woolf and 'theory' Claire Colebrook
7. Woolf and feminist theory Lisa Coleman
8. Woolf and psychoanalytic theory Sanja Bahun
9. Woolf and theories of postcolonialism Sonita Sarker
10. Woolf and theories of sexuality Morgne (Patricia) Cramer
Part II. Historical and Cultural Context:
11. Virginia Woolf and modernity: crisis and catoptrics Randall Stevenson
12. Virginia Woolf: war and peace Jane Lilienfeld
13. Woolf's Bloomsbury Kathryn Simpson
14. Politics and class Elena Gualtieri
15. Feminist politics Judith Allen
16. Race, empire and Ireland Anna Snaith
17. Jewishness and anti-Semitism 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. Art Suzanne Bellamy
22. Music Emma Sutton
23. Cinema and photography Maggie Humm
24. Woolf and theatre Beth Wright
25. Woolf and publishing Drew Shannon
26. Woolf, journalism and reviewing James Stewart
27. Woolf and Freud Perry Meisel
28. Woolf and lesbian culture Madelyn Detloff
29. Woolf and the culture of letter-writing and diary-keeping Ian Blyth
30. Contemporary philosophy Derek Ryan
31. Continental Woolf Carole Bourne-Taylor
32. Woolf and the Russians Darya Protopopova
33. American Woolf Thaine Stearns
34. Woolf and the Victorians Margaret Homans
35. Classical Woolf Vassiliki Kolocotroni
36. Woolf and eugenics Linden Peach
37. Woolf and commodities Ruth Hoberman
38. Woolf and the private sphere Jessica Berman
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