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Book SynopsisProvides an authoritative contextual resource that examines the historical, theoretical, critical and cultural orientation of the author's work. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, the collection offers original scholarship on Woolf's relationship to key twentieth-century issues while highlighting ways in which Woolf is contextualised today.
Trade Review'… 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 Bulletin
'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
Table of ContentsPreface 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.
