The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

by Fernald, Anne E.

• ISBN13: 9780198811589
• ISBN10: 0198811586
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-10-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf's life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf's practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf's experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf's writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while 'Professions of Writing', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the TLS. The 'Contexts' section moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final section on afterlives demonstrates the many ways Woolf's reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.

Author Biography

Anne E. Fernald, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) and the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism/modernity and one of the editors
of The Norton Reader, a widely-used anthology of essays. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism.

Table of Contents

Part I: Life
1. Family and Place, Urmila Seshagiri
2. Friends and Lovers, Kathryn Simpson
3. Traditions and Transformations, Regina Marler
Part II: Texts
4. Private Writings, Caroline Pollentier
5. Early Novels and Stories (1915-1923), Jocelyn Rodal
6. Mature Works I (1924-1927), Gabrielle McIntire
7. Mature Works II (1928-1932), Elsa H?gberg
8. Late Works (1933-1941), Alice Wood
Part III: Experiments in Form and Style
9. Stream of Consciousness, Dora Zhang
10. Character, Form, and Fiction, Amy Bromley
11. Time, Jesse Matz
12. Narrative Ethics, Janine Utell
13. Allusion and Metaphor, Jane de Gay
14. Biography and Autobiography, Laura Marcus
Part IV: Professions of Writing
15. Literary London, Helen Southworth
16. The Hogarth Press, Alice Staveley
17. Woolf as Reviewer-Critic, Eleanor McNees
18. The Essays, Beth C. Rosenberg
19. The Lyrical Mode of Translating, Claire Davison
Part V: Contexts
20. Woolf's Feminism, Stephanie J Brown
21. Queer Theory, Chris Coffman
22. Woolf and Education, Anna Snaith
23. Woolf and Suffrage, Barbara Green
24. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Tamar Katz
25. Oceans and Empire, Maxwell Uphaus
26. Biopower, Madelyn Detloff
27. The Natural World and the Anthropocene, Cliff Mak
28. War and Peace, Beryl Pong
29. Work, Mary Wilson
30. Consumer Culture, Elizabeth M. Sheehan
Part VI: Afterlives
31. Feminist Theory, Jean Mills
32. Disability, Illness, and Pain, Elizabeth Outka
33. The Academy and Publishing, Vara Neverow
34. Modern Woolfian Fiction, Roxana Robinson
35. Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction, Laura M? Lojo-Rodr?guez
36. Narrative Futures of the Feminist Novel, Tonya Krause
37. Creative Non-fiction and Poetry, Stacey D'Erasmo
38. Virginia Woolf, Filmmaker, Jacqueline Shin
39. Woolfian Afterlives, Laura Smith