Virginia Woolf and Her Influences presents papers from the Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire June 12-15, 1997. These papers fall under the theme of 'the influence of something upon somebody' as it arises throughout Woolf's work. The careful arrangement of the essays carries them over from the context of the conference to provide a range of critical and expanded approaches to Woolf's writing under the groupings of Reading/Writing the Individual, Historical Positionings, Creative Revolutions, and Theoretical Foray. Each part concludes with a section of 'Teachings' that recognizes the emphasis that Woolf placed on education and its impact on constructions of the body, on constructions of history, and on art and its interpretations. The editors' main goal is to expand the understanding of Woolf so that her creativity and ideas can be appreciated from not only the traditional perspective, but modern, varied perspectives as well.
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Note from the Editors | ||
| Unveiling the Jessamy Brides | ||
| Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings: A Preview | ||
| Woolf's Lesbian Erotics of the Soul | ||
| "Had not that, after all, been love?" | ||
| Virginia Woolf Through Common Lesbian Readers' Eyes | ||
| Woolf's Lesbian Epistemology | ||
| Inventing Virginia Woolf: Literary Biography as Art Form | 11 | |
| Responses to a Life of Virginia Woolf | 13 | |
| Love and Politics, the room within ... | 16 | |
| Waves of Pure Lemon: Afterthoughts | 18 | |
| Make Art, Not War: Virginia Woolf's Between the Arts | ||
| Virginia Woolf and Low Art? Cultural Studies, Popular Culture and Cinema | ||
| Technology: A New Entre to Woolf and Art Evelyn Haller, Researching Woolf and the Movable Arts of Dance and Radio-transmitted Words | 153 | |
| "Human nature is on you": Septimus Smith and the Camera Eye | 162 | |
| Mrs. Dalloway, The Film | 167 | |
| Mrs. Dalloway: Film, Time, and Trauma | 171 | |
| Dancing with Woolf: The Genesis of a Dance Concert | 176 | |
| Mr. Dalloway: An Excerpt from the Novel | 178 | |
| The Collective Self: Maxine Hong Kingston and Virginia Woolf | 181 | |
| Folk Revival/Folks Revived: Rites of Passage, "Virginia Woolf," and the Indigo Girls | 187 | |
| The Greek Optative in the Narrative Style of To the Lighthouse | 195 | |
| On integrity, legal trespassers, and peeling potatoes: A Room of One's Own re-read in Polish | 202 | |
| Violent Conversions, Rhetorical Weapons: Mrs. Dalloway and the Influence of a Nationalist Literary History | 209 | |
| Who Can Pay for Virginia Woolf? - Commodifying Bloomsbury | 215 | |
| Retro-Anger and Baby-Boomer Nostalgia: A Polemical Talk | 221 | |
| "'Re-iterating the Differences': Virginia Woolf and (Postmodern) Theory" | ||
| "Reading Postmodernism in To the Lighthouse" | ||
| "Phases of Fiction and Theory" | ||
| "In Relation to the Sky": Virginia Woolf's Other Real World | 244 | |
| Flanerie by Motor-Car? | 251 | |
| The Production of the South Country in the Bloomsbury Group's Writings | 257 | |
| "Against such moments, there contrasted Baron Marbot": Reading "Being" and "Non-Being" in Mrs. Dalloway and Traditional Memoirs | 262 | |
| Epistolary Narrative and the Addressee as Influence: Christmas Day 1922 | 269 | |
| Producing Queer Affiliations: Feminist, Lesbian, Aesthetic and Queer Reading Practices | 275 | |
| "The Blessed Island of Good Boots": Virginia Woolf's Deployment of Fetishism in To the Lighthouse | 282 | |
| To the Lighthouse "Through the Looking Glass": Woolf's and Irigaray's Metaphysics | 288 | |
| "I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess": Lily Briscoe, Mrs. Ramsay, and the Postmodern Sublime | 294 | |
| The Image of the Circle in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway's Party | 302 | |
| Truth Defined by Absence | 302 | |
| Cam, A Mother's Daughter | 302 | |
| Sargent and Woolf: Two Portraitists | 302 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 310 | |
| Conference Program | 316 |
Overview
Virginia Woolf and Her Influences presents papers from the Seventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire June 12-15, 1997. These papers fall under the theme of 'the influence of something upon somebody' as it arises throughout Woolf's work. The careful arrangement of the essays carries them over from the context of the conference to provide a range of critical and expanded approaches to Woolf's writing under the groupings of Reading/Writing the Individual, Historical ...