Woolfian Boundaries

by Anna Burrells (Editor), Steve Ellis (Editor), Deborah Parsons (Editor)

Overview

Woolfian Boundaries aims to explore Woolf’s work from perspectives “beyond the boundary” of her own positions and attitudes, taking her coolness toward the provinces and “prejudice” against the regional novel (Letters 6: 381) as the starting-point for considering her writing in the light of its own “limits,” self-declared and otherwise. Topics include Woolf’s connections with the “Birmingham School” of novelists in the 1930s to her interests in environmentalism, portraiture, photography, and the media, and her endlessly fascinating relationship with the writings of her contemporaries and predecessors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979606618
Publisher:	Clemson University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2018
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)

Table of Contents

Ruth Gruber • Forward vi

Anna Burrells, Steve Ellis, Deborah Parsons, Kathryn Simpson • Introduction ix

Suzanne Bellamy • Textual Archeology: An Australian Study of Virginia Woolf in 1942 1

Amber K. Regis • “From all this diversity…not a riot of confusion but a richer unity”: The

Limits of Self-Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography 8

Deborah Gerrard • Brown-ness, Trees, Rose Petals, and Chrysalises: The Influence of

Edward Carpenter’s Mystical Evolutionary Socialism on the Writing of Virginia

Woolf, with Particular Reference to The Years 15

Katie Macnamara • Mapping Woolf’s Montaignian Modernism 22

Jim Stewart • Woolf and Andrew Marvell: The Gendering of Modernism 30

Ben Clarke • “But the barrier is impassable”: Virginia Woolf and Class 36

Helen Southworth • “Outside the magic (and tyrannical) triangle of London-Oxford-

Cambridge”: John Hampson, The Woolfs, and the Hogarth Press 43

Lara Feigel • Buggery and Montage: Birmingham and Bloomsbury in the 1930s 51

Alyda Faber • “The shock of love” and the Visibility of “indecent” Pain: Reading the

Woolf-Raverat Correspondence 58

Susan Reid • Killing the Angel in the House: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and the

Boundaries of Sex and Gender 65

Randi Synnøve Koppen • Real Bodies and the Psychology of Clothes: Three Guineas

and the Limits of Sartorial Reasoning 72

Ian Blyth • Woolf, Rooks, and Rural England 80

Richard Espley • Woolf and the Others at the Zoo 86

Christina Alt • Pests and Pesticides: Exploring the Boundaries of Woolf’s Environmentalism 93

Jane Goldman • “Ce chien est à moi”: Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog 100

Bonnie Kime Scott • Virginia Woolf, Ecofeminism, and Breaking Boundaries in Nature 108

Emily Kopley • Woolf’s Transformation of Providential Form in Mrs. Dalloway 116

Thaine Stearns • Pilfering Modernism’s Image: Woolf and Those Other Londoners 121

Ben Harvey • Borderline Personalities: Woolf Reviews Kapp 127

Elizabeth Wright • Performing the Self: Woolf as Actress and Audience 138

Wendy Parkins • “Whose face was it?”: Nicole Kidman, Virginia Woolf, and the

Boundaries of Feminine Celebrity 144

Maggie Humm • “Memory Holes” or “Heterotopias”?: The Bloomsbury Photographs 150

Tara Surry • “Over the boundary”: Virginia Woolf as Common Seer 157

Elisa Kay Sparks • “The evening under lamplight…with the photograph album”: To

the Lighthouse as Family Scrapbook 164

Melba Cuddy-Keane • Afterword: Inside and Outside the Covers: Beginnings, Endings,

and Woolf’s Non-Coercive Ethical Texts 172

Notes on Contributors 181