Virginia Woolf in Context

by Randall, Bryony; Goldman, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781107003613
• ISBN10: 110700361X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-17
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Theory and Critical Reception

Historicising Woolf: context studies

Virginia Woolf: after lives

Woolf and modernist studies

Woolf and realism

Woolf and intertextuality

Woolf and 'theory'

Woolf and feminist theory

Woolf and psychoanalytic theory

Woolf and theories of postcolonialism

Woolf and theories of sexuality

Historical and Cultural Context

Virginia Woolf and modernity: crisis and catoptrics

Virginia Woolf: war and peace

Woolf's Bloomsbury

Politics and class

Feminist politics

Race, empire and Ireland

Jewishness and anti-Semitism

Woolf's London: London's Woolf

Regionalism, nature and the environment Bonnie

Science and technology

Art

Music

Cinema and photography

Woolf and theatre

Woolf and publishing

Woolf, journalism and reviewing

Woolf and Freud

Woolf and lesbian culture

Woolf and the culture of letter-writing and diary-keeping

Contemporary philosophy

Continental Woolf Carole

Woolf and the Russians

American Woolf

Woolf and the Victorians

Classical Woolf

Woolf and eugenics

Woolf and commodities

Woolf and the private sphere

Key critical works cited

Index

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