Preface Jane Goldman and Bryony Randall; Part I. Theory and Critical Reception: 1. Historicising Woolf: context studies Michael Whitworth; 2. Virginia Woolf: after lives Mark Hussey; 3. Woolf and modernist studies Bryony Randall; 4. Woolf and realism Pam Morris; 5. Woolf and intertextuality Anne Fernald; 6. Woolf and 'theory' Claire Colebrook; 7. Woolf and feminist theory Lisa Coleman; 8. Woolf and psychoanalytic theory Sanja Bahun; 9. Woolf and theories of postcolonialism Sonita Sarker; 10. Woolf and theories of sexuality Morgne (Patricia) Cramer; Part II. Historical and Cultural Context: 11. Virginia Woolf and modernity: crisis and catoptrics Randall Stevenson; 12. Virginia Woolf: war and peace Jane Lilienfeld; 13. Woolf's Bloomsbury Kathryn Simpson; 14. Politics and class Elena Gualtieri; 15. Feminist politics Judith Allen; 16. Race, empire and Ireland Anna Snaith; 17. Jewishness and anti-Semitism Heidi Stalla; 18. Woolf's London: London's Woolf David Bradshaw; 19. Regionalism, nature and the environment Bonnie Kime Scott; 20. Science and technology Holly Henry; 21. Art Suzanne Bellamy; 22. Music Emma Sutton; 23. Cinema and photography Maggie Humm; 24. Woolf and theatre Beth Wright; 25. Woolf and publishing Drew Shannon; 26. Woolf, journalism and reviewing James Stewart; 27. Woolf and Freud Perry Meisel; 28. Woolf and lesbian culture Madelyn Detloff; 29. Woolf and the culture of letter-writing and diary-keeping Ian Blyth; 30. Contemporary philosophy Derek Ryan; 31. Continental Woolf Carole Bourne-Taylor; 32. Woolf and the Russians Darya Protopopova; 33. American Woolf Thaine Stearns; 34. Woolf and the Victorians Margaret Homans; 35. Classical Woolf Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 36. Woolf and eugenics Linden Peach; 37. Woolf and commodities Ruth Hoberman; 38. Woolf and the private sphere Jessica Berman; Key critical works cited; Index.
Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.
Bryony Randall is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Modernism, Daily Time, and Everyday Life (2007) and has published articles on Gertrude Stein, New Woman short stories, Stevie Smith, Dorothy Richardson and H. D. She is co-editor of the upcoming Cambridge University Press edition of Virginia Woolf's short fiction. Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow and a General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. She has written several books on Virginia Woolf, including The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (2006) and The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism, and the Politics of the Visual (1998). She is editor of Woolf's To the Lighthouse for Cambridge University Press and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents.
'… Virginia Woolf in Context is a useful addition to the
flourishing field of Woolf studies. It covers an array of contexts,
brings together numerous internationally renowned scholars, and
highlights developing critical trends. Not only will it be of great
assistance to those encountering Woolf's work for the first time,
but [it] will also service well-versed scholars. The 'Literature in
Context' series published by Cambridge University Press is fast
becoming the criterion against which other collections are judged
and, along with 'The Cambridge Companion' series, will prove to be
an indispensable resource.' Jeremy Diaper, Virginia Woolf
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'Similar to other books in Cambridge University Press's Literature
in Context series, this collection places a particular writer
within the various contexts that inform his or her work … this
collection provides the contexts necessary to understand Woolf's
more difficult works without prescribing the view one should take
of these works - and Woolf herself.' Molly Youngkin, English
Literature in Transition, 1880–1920
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