Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

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Overview

This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230517660
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 02/10/2010
Edition description: 2010
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

CHRISTINA ALT SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada ANNA BOGEN DPhil University of Sussex, UK KRISTIN CZARNECKI Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown College, Kentucky, USA BENJAMIN HARVEY Assistant Professor of Art History, Mississippi State University, USA MAGGIE HUMM Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK CAROLINE MARIE Maître de Conférences, Université Paris 8, France MAKIKO MINOW-PINKNEY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bolton, UK SUZANNE RAITT Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA BETH RIGEL DAUGHERTY English and Integrative Studies, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, USA ELISA KAY SPARKS Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA MORAG SHIACH Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK CECIL WOOLF Nephew of Leonard Woolf and founder of Cecil Woolf Books

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Notes on the Contributors xiv

List of Abbreviations xvii

1 Back to Bloomsbury Cecil Woolf 1

2 The Voyage Back: Woolf's Revisions and Returns Suzanne Raitt 9

3 ‘Young writers might do worse’: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Virginia Stephen and Virginia Woolf Beth Rigel Daugherty 20

4 Mapping the Ghostly City: Cambridge, A Room of One's Own and the University Novel Anna Bogen 37

5 London Rooms Morag Shiach 50

6 Leonard and Virginia's London Library: Mapping London's Tides, Streams and Statues Elisa Kay Sparks 64

7 Sense of Self and Sense of Place in Orlando: Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics of Pantomime Caroline Marie 75

8 ‘My own ghost met me’: Woolf's 1930s Photographs, Death and Freud's Acropolis Maggie Humm 86

9 Woolf, Fry and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity Benjamin Harvey 104

10 Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature Christina Alt 121

11 Comparative Modernism: The Bloomsbury Group and the Harlem Renaissance Kristin Czarnecki 135

12 Sketches of Carlyle's House by Two Visitors, a Young Virginia Woolf and a Japanese Novelist; S&obar;seki Natsume Makiko Minow-Pinkney 153

Bibliography 171

Index 185

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