Virginia Woolf & Communities: Selected Papers from the Eighth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, June 4-7, 1998

by McVicker, Jeanette; Davis, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780944473474
• ISBN10: 0944473474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Thirty-five papers selected from the 1998 conference analyze and re-explore communities of which Virginia Woolf was a part -- for example, Female Modernists, artists, lesbian and gay, communities formed by letter writing, British, and pacifist. Highlights include artists' conversations (reproduced) on their communion with Woolf, discussion and critique of the film Paris Was a Woman, and thoughts on the conversations that take place while reading and teaching Woolf; Woolf and technology; the letters she received in response to Three Guineas; Woolf through the lens of trauma theory; and the impact of her work on Spanish-American women writers.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Introduction Raising Community	1	(5)
Georgia Johnston
Note From the Editors	6	(4)
Jeanette McVicker
Laura Davis
Isolation and Community
Learning Virginia Woolf: Of Leslie, Libraries, and Letters	10	(7)
Beth Rigel Daugherty
A Community of Correspondences: Two Women, Letters, and The Voyage Out	17	(5)
Lana Hartman Landon
Laurel Smith
Communities of Desire: Woolf, Proust, and The Reading Process	22	(7)
Pierre-Eric Villeneuve
Virginia Woolf and the French Connection: A Devotion to Language	29	(7)
Marilyn Zucker
Trauma and Loss
Powers of Horror and Peace: Abjection and Community in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts	36	(7)
Michelle Mimlitsch
Veterans and Civilians: Traumatic Knowledge and Cultural Appropriation in Mrs. Dalloway	43	(7)
Marlene Briggs
Imagined Communities of Criticism: ``Wounded Attachments'' to the Icons of H. D., Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf	50	(7)
Madelyn Detloff
``We perished, each alone'': Loss and Lyricism in Woolf, Maso, and Young	57	(8)
Robin Paula Silbergleid
Historicized Textualities: Resisting Patriarchy
Thinking Back Through Our Mothers, Thinking in Common: Virginia Woolf's Photographic Imagination and the Community of Narrators in Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas	65	(26)
Vara Neverow
Featured Speaker
A Community of Women Looking at Men: The Photographs in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas	91	(6)
Nancy Knowles
Thinking Back through Our Mothers: Virginia Woolf in the Spanish-American Female Imagination	97	(5)
Monica Ayuso
The Politics/Poetics of Motherhood in to the Lighthouse	102	(7)
Megumi Kato
Between the Arts: Woolf, Pedagogy and the Persistence of Authority	109	(8)
Deborah Wilson
Re-examining Discourses of Power
Civilization and Its Pretexts in Virginia Woolf's Imagination	117	(10)
Tuzyline Jita Allan
Featured Speaker
Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the Primitive	127	(9)
Lois Gilmore
The Masked Reality in Leonard Woolf's Colonial Writings	136	(5)
Yuko Ito
Woolf and the Gendering of Fascism	141	(6)
Judy Suh
Metaphors of Material Cultures
Meet Me in St. Louis: Virginia Woolf and Community	147	(14)
Rachel Bowlby
Featured Speaker
Woolf's Web: Telecommunications and Community	161	(6)
Michael Whitworth
Virginia Woolf's Women and the Fashionable Elite: On Not Fitting In	167	(6)
Deirdre Flynn
In the Urinal; Virginia Woolf Around Gay Men	173	(5)
D. A. Boxwell
Gathering Around the Punch Bowl: Woolf's Alternative Narrative Community	178	(9)
Terry DeHay
Remaking Virginia: A Caution for Readers	187	(15)
Diana Royer
Narratological Communities
Featured Conversation: Artists and Community
Introductions Suzanne Bellamy, Imagining the Muse
Georgia Johnston
J. J. Wilson
``Why are these pages comforting?''	193	(9)
Sigrid Nunez
Virginia Woolf and the Community of Diarists	202	(10)
Barbara Lounsberry
``That perpetual marriage of granite and rainbow'': Searching for ``The New Biography'' in Virginia Woolf's Orlando	212	(7)
Kathryn Miles
Virginia Woolf and Reading Communities: Respondents to Three Guineas	219	(8)
Anna Snaith
Hypertext as Metaphor: Reading Woolf in the Electronic Age	227	(7)
Stephanie Harzewski
Constructing Feminine Aesthetic Spaces
The Community of Audience: Woolf's Drama of Public Woman	234	(17)
Marianne DeKoven
Featured Speaker
The Dial as Matrix: Periodical Community between Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe	251	(8)
Elisa Kay Sparks
Artist and Feminist Communities of 1910: Post-Impressionism, Suffrage Aesthetics, and Intersubjectivity in to the Lighthouse	259	(10)
Jane Goldman
Communities of Silence and Music in Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage	269	(7)
Arianne Burford
First Encounters: Student Responses to Woolf	276	(6)
Nita Pettigrew
Julia Gray
Rebecca Weisser)
Featured Conversation: Filming the Left Bank	282	(7)
Shari Benstock
Morris Beja
Bonnie Kime Scott
The Rhetoric of Performance in A Room of One's Own	289	(8)
Judith Allen
Notes on Contributors	297	(6)
Conference Program	303