Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts Selected Papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf

by Daugherty, Beth Rigel; Barrett, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780944473276
• ISBN10: 094447327X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-18
• Publisher: University Publishing Association

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xi
Introduction Context, Common Readers, and Conversation	xiii
Beth Rigel Daugherty
Note from the Editors	xxviii
Featured Event
``Hiding Behind the Curtain'': Reading (Woolf) Like a Man	1	(15)
Mark Hussey
Woolf's Use of Language
A Rhetorical Context for Virginia Woolf	16	(5)
Margaret Morrell Morgan
Pain, Loss, and Grief in Virginia Woolf
Housebroken: The Domesticated Relations of Flush	21	(5)
David Eberly
Woolf and Popular Culture
Virginia Woolf Joins Jane Wagner and Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe	26	(4)
Elizabeth Lambert
Woolf's Subversive Career
Woolf in the Context of Fascism: Ideology, Hegemony and the Public Sphere	30	(5)
Jeanette McVicker
An Antigone Complex? Psychology and Politics in The Years and Three Guineas	35	(5)
Diana L. Swanson
Virginia Woolf and the Male Moderns
Modernist Spatial Nostalgia: Forster, Conrad, Woolf	40	(5)
Stephen Bernstein
Virginia Woolf and Creative Writers: Correspondences
Dear Al: Ginny Woolf Writes Almost as Good as I Pitch (A Celebration of Virginia Woolf through Ring Lardner)	45	(5)
Wayne Rittenhouse
Featured Event
From Typography to Time: Producing Virginia Woolf	50	(14)
Edward Bishop
Contexts for A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own and Female Literature in Heian Japan: Women's Oppression as Obstacle and Motive for Literary Creation	64	(7)
Mayumi Nakano
The Heteroglossia of History: A Collaborative Woolf Project
The Heteroglossia of History, Part One: The Car	71	(10)
Melba Cuddy-Keane
Natasha Aleksiuk
Morgan Love
Chris Rose
Andrea Williams
Kay Li
Woolf and Other Women Writers
Two Judith Shakespeares: Virginia Woolf, H.D., and the Androgynous Brother-Sister Mind	81	(6)
Kathleen Crown
Modernist/Postmodernist Contexts
``How It Strikes a Contemporary'': Woolf's Modernism, Our Postmodernism	87	(6)
Andrea L. Harris
Woolf's Diaries and Letters as Texts/Contexts
The Diaries vs. the Letters: Continuities and Contradictions	93	(6)
Barbara Lounsberry
Woolf Constructing the Male
``In a third class railway carriage'': Class, the Great War, and Mrs. Dalloway	99	(5)
Christine Darrohn
Virginia Woolf and Religion
Briscoe's Alt[a]rnative: Durga or Sati? Woolf and Hinduism in To the Lighthouse	104	(6)
Anju Kanwar
Woolf and Gay/Lesbian literary History
``I Am Not What You Supposed'': Walt Whitman's Influence on Virginia Woolf	110	(7)
Lisa Tyler
Woolf's Foremothers ... and a Few Daughters
``... in the wake of the matrons'': Virginia Woolf's Rewriting of Fanny Burney	117	(6)
Beth Carole Rosenberg
Woolf and Narrative
``Must Novels Be Like This?'': Virginia Woolf as Narrative Theorist	123	(5)
Jane Lilienfeld
Power, Discipline, and Individuality: Subversive Characterization in Jacob's Room	128	(6)
Michael Olin-Hitt
Writing the Jump Cut: Mrs. Dalloway in the Context of Cinema	134	(6)
Lia M. Hotchkiss
Constructing Woolf
Virginia Woolf's Autobiographers: Sidonie Smith, Shoshana Felman, and Shari Benstock	140	(5)
Georgia Johnston
Virginia Woolf and Science
Bio-graphy and the Quantum Leap: Waves, Particles, and Light as a Theory of Writing the Human Life	145	(6)
Sue Sun Yom
Virginia Woolf and Creative Writers/Artists: Conversations
Living Dangerously: Poems	151	(6)
Catherine N. Parke
Featured Event
Virginia Woolf and the Good Brother	157	(20)
Madeline Moore
Fluid Sexuality in Virginia Woolf
From He and She to You and Me: Grounding Fluidity, Woolf's Orlando to Winterson's Written on the Body	177	(6)
Lisa Haines-Wright
Traci Lynn Kyle
Laterality and Sexuality: The Transgressive Aesthetics of Orlando	183	(6)
Thomas Caramagno
Woolf Constructing
Virginia Woolf Writes to Vita Sackville-West (and Receives a Reply): Aphra Behn, Orlando, Saint Joan of Arc and Revolutionary Biography	189	(4)
Karyn Z. Sproles
``A Voice Answering a Voice'': Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Virginia Woolf and Margaret Forster's Literary Friendship	193	(5)
Debra L. Cumberland
The Biographer and the Self in Roger Fry	198	(6)
Diane F. Gillespie
The Voyage Out and Between the Acts: Readings of Empire
Death and the Maiden Voyage: Mapping the Junction of Feminism and Postcolonial Theory in The Voyage Out	204	(6)
June Cummins
Scraps and Fragments of Empire: The Pageant as Metaphor in Woolf and Walcott	210	(6)
Ann Harris
Virginia Woolf and the Female Moderns
Beginning with the Same Ending: Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton	216	(7)
Anne MacMaster
Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Women's Memoirs/Readings
Paracanons and Sacred Texts: Reading Memoir/Reading Woolf	223	(5)
Mary Beth Pringle
Memoir as Imprint	228	(3)
Toni McNaron
Chloe and Olivia Meet the Death of God	231	(4)
Alicia Ostriker
Historical and Political Contexts for Three Guineas
Politics ``through different eyes'': Three Guineas and Writings by Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom	235	(6)
Kathryn Harvey
The Text as Object
Text as Microfilm and Text as Software	241	(4)
Lorie Freed
Virginia Woolf and Creative Writers: Influences
I'll Never Be Alone Again	245	(5)
Annabel Thomas
Woolf and Travel
Spires of London: Domes of Istanbul	250	(5)
Krystyna Colburn
Virginia Woolf as Essayist
From Reviewer to Literary Critic: Virginia Woolf's Early Career as a Book Reviewer, 1904-1918	255	(7)
Jeanne Dubino
Creating a (Writing) Life
Voicing Virginia: The Monday or Tuesday Years	262	(6)
Alice Staveley
Virginia Woolf and the Arts
Performance Art and Tableau Vivant-The Case of Clarissa Dalloway and Mrs. Ramsay	268	(6)
Genevieve Sanchis Morgan
Virginia Woolf and Me: Personal Criticism
Woolf, Women, and War: From Statement in Three Guineas to Impression in Jacob's Room	274	(6)
Stephanie Zappa
Featured Event
War, Civilization, and the Conscience of Modernity: Views from Jacob's Room	280	(16)
Christine Froula
Notes on Contributors	296	(5)
Conference Program	301