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Book SynopsisAn analysis of Virginia Woolf's surprising visibility in both high and popular culture, showing how her image and authority have been claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, anger, sexuality, gender, class, the canon, feminism, race and fashion.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Versioning of Virginia Woolf Part 1. Negative Encounters: The "Intellectual" Media Prelude. Anger and Storytelling: Whose Story Counts? Section 1. The Columbia Stories Section 2. The New York Review of Books Section 3. How the Greats Are Fallen Part 2. Starring Virginia Woolf Take 1. Production Notes Take 2. Time: Virginia Woolf Joins the "All-Star Literary Vaudeville" Take 3. A Writer's Diary and the "Real" Virginia Woolf Take 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Virginia Woolf Becomes a Household Name Take 5. Quentin Bell's Biography and Historical Products Inc.: Family Portraits Take 6. Virginia Woolf's Face Take 7. British Graffiti: Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid Take 8. Tom & Viv & Virginia & Edith & Ottoline & Vita & Carrington Take 9. Fashion Stills Part 3. Doubled Movements Move 1. The Politics of Adaptation; Or, the Authentic Virginia Woolf Move 2. The Monstrous Union of Virginia Woolf and Marilyn Monroe Afterword: Virginia Woolf Episodes Notes Index
