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A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.
List of contents
- Part I: Life
- 1.: Urmila Seshagiri: Family and Place
- 2.: Kathryn Simpson: Friends and Lovers
- 3.: Regina Marler: Traditions and Transformations
- Part II: Texts
- 4.: Caroline Pollentier: Private Writings
- 5.: Jocelyn Rodal: Early Novels and Stories (1915-1923)
- 6.: Gabrielle McIntire: Mature Works I (1924-1927)
- 7.: Elsa Högberg: Mature Works II (1928-1932)
- 8.: Alice Wood: Late Works (1933-1941)
- Part III: Experiments in Form and Style
- 9.: Dora Zhang: Stream of Consciousness
- 10.: Amy Bromley: Character, Form, and Fiction
- 11.: Jesse Matz: Time
- 12.: Janine Utell: Narrative Ethics
- 13.: Jane de Gay: Allusion and Metaphor
- 14.: Laura Marcus: Biography and Autobiography
- Part IV: Professions of Writing
- 15.: Helen Southworth: Literary London
- 16.: Alice Staveley: The Hogarth Press
- 17.: Eleanor McNees: Woolf as Reviewer-Critic
- 18.: Beth C. Rosenberg: The Essays
- 19.: Claire Davison: The Lyrical Mode of Translating,
- Part V: Contexts
- 20.: Stephanie J Brown: Woolf's Feminism
- 21.: Chris Coffman: Queer Theory
- 22.: Anna Snaith: Woolf and Education
- 23.: Barbara Green: Woolf and Suffrage
- 24.: Tamar Katz: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- 25.: Maxwell Uphaus: Oceans and Empire
- 26.: Madelyn Detloff: Biopower
- 27.: Cliff Mak: The Natural World and the Anthropocene
- 28.: Beryl Pong: War and Peace
- 29.: Mary Wilson: Work
- 30.: Elizabeth M. Sheehan: Consumer Culture
- Part VI: Afterlives
- 31.: Jean Mills: Feminist Theory
- 32.: Elizabeth Outka: Disability, Illness, and Pain
- 33.: Vara Neverow: The Academy and Publishing
- 34.: Roxana Robinson: Modern Woolfian Fiction
- 35.: Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez: Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction
- 36.: Tonya Krause: Narrative Futures of the Feminist Novel
- 37.: Stacey D'Erasmo: Creative Non-fiction and Poetry
- 38.: Jacqueline Shin: Virginia Woolf, Filmmake
- 39.: Laura Smith: Woolfian Afterlives
About the author
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 edition of 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
Summary
A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.
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'[I]ndispensable not only for anyone embarked on teaching or
researching Woolf but also for those who might think they know the state of Woolf
scholarship in the twenty-first century, for whom its extraordinary breadth will be enlightening this volume will become a landmark in the field it assesses and advances' Mark Hussey, Woolf Studies, Annual Reviews
