Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches

Jeanne Dubino; Gill Lowe; Vara Neverow; Kathryn Simpson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

Virginia Woolf

Twenty-First-Century Approaches

Jeanne Dubino , Gill Lowe , Vara Neverow and Kathryn Simpson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748693948

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About this book

Reconsiders Virginia Woolf’s work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction

These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century. Divided into 5 parts – Self and Identity; Language and Translation; Culture and Commodification; Human, Animal and Nonhuman; and Gender, Sexuality and Multiplicity – the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective, provisional, and contingent nature of Woolf's work. The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity, and language and translation from multiple angles, including shifting textualities, culture and the marketplace, critical animal studies, and discourses that fracture and revise gender and sexuality.

Key Features:

Extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of ‘Virginia Woolf’
Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical (and contradictory) author
Explores multiple meanings related to the conjoined, fused, connected, and evolving nature of Woolf studies
Considers new configurations, new pairings, and new ways of placing ideas in tension around Woolf’s work for a postmodern, postmillennial age

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Jeanne Dubino, Gill Lowe, Vara Neverow and Kathryn Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Self and Identity
Chapter 1 ‘I am fast locked up’, Janus and Miss Jan: Virginia Woolf’s 1897 Journal as Threshold Text Gill Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 Elusive Encounters: Seeking out Virginia Woolf in Her Commemorative House Museum Nuala Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Part Two, Language and Translation
Chapter 3 ‘Can I Help You?’: Virginia Woolf, Viola Tree, and the Hogarth Press Diane F. Gillespie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 4 Bilinguals and Bioptics: Virginia Woolf and the Outlandishness of Translation Claire Davison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Part Three. Culture and Commodification
Chapter 5 ‘Unity – Dispersity’: Virginia Woolf and tThe Contradictory Motif of the Motor-Car Ann Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 6 ‘Am I a Jew?’: Woolf’s 1930s Political and Economic Peregrinations Kathryn Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part Four. Human, Animal, and Nonhuman
Chapter 7 The Bispecies Environment, Coevolution, and Flush Jeanne Dubino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 8 Posthumanist Interludes: Ecology and Ethology in The Waves Derek Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Part Five. Genders, Sexualities, and Multiplicities
Chapter 9 Indecency: Jacob’s Room, Modernist Homosexuality, and the Culture of War Eileen Barrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 10 Multiple Anonymities: Resonances of Fielding’s The Female Husband in Orlando and A Room of One’s Own Vara Neverow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 11 Two-Spirits and Gender Variance in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Kristin Czarnecki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: November 30, 2014
ISBN: 9780748693948