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Woolf and the City

Elizabeth F. Evans and Sarah E. Cornish

Abstract

This book contains chapters selected from the nearly 200 papers delivered at the nineteenth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an introduction, the conference keynote addresses, and twenty-five other chapters organized around six presiding themes: navigating London; spatial perceptions and the cityscape; regarding others; the literary public sphere; border crossings, and liminal landscapes; and teaching Woolf, Woolf teaching. The book also includes a special session of the conference, a round-table conversation on Woolf's legacy in and out of the academy. Be ... More

Keywords: Virginia Woolf, London, spatial perceptions, cityscape, border crossing, liminal landscape, teaching, urban issues

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2010 Print ISBN-13: 9780984259830
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780984259830.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Elizabeth F. Evans, editor
University of Notre Dame

Sarah E. Cornish, editor
University of Northern Colorado

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations

Keynotes

Pausing, Waiting, Repeating

Tamar Katz

The Years, Street Music, and Acoustic Space

Anna Snaith

“You then”

Jessica Berman

Navigating London

Imagining Flânerie Beyond Anthropocentrism

Caroline Pollentier

Public Transport in Woolf’s City Novels

Eleanor McNees

Virginia Woolf Underground

Alexandra Harris

“Street Haunting,” Commodity Culture, and the Woman Artist

Kathryn Simpson

A City in the Archives

Diane F. Gillespie

Spatial Perceptions and the Cityscape

Queering London

Kimberly Engdahl Coates

Reconfigured Terrain

Elicia Clements

“Dark pours over the outlines of houses and towers”

Federico Sabatini

Regarding Others

Woolf and the Falling Man

Mark Hussey

“How Strange”

Molly Hite

Cosmopolitanism from Below in Mrs. Dalloway and “Street Haunting”

Christine W. Sizemore

The Literary Public Sphere

The Bestseller and the City

Melissa Sullivan

To “make that country our own country”

Erica Gene Delsandro

Between Public and Private Acts

Mia Spiro

Metropolis Unbound

Elisa Kay Sparks

New World Archives

Suzanne Bellamy

Border Crossings and Liminal Landscapes

Contrasting Urban and Rural Transgressive Sexualities in Jacob’s Room

Vara Neverow

“No Room for More”

Rishona Zimring

“[D]irectly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different”

Randi Saloman

An Archive in the City

Leslie Kathleen Hankins

“When dogs will become men”

Jane Goldman

Teaching Woolf, Woolf Teaching

The Streets of London

Beth Rigel Daugherty

“Find Our Own Way for Ourselves”

Cheryl Hindrichs

Recreating Woolf’s Public and Private Spaces in Architectural Design Education

Sevinc Kurt

Virginia Woolf in the Cyber City

Paula Maggio

Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation

Forward

Megan Branch

Transcript of “Inspired by Woolf” A special panel at the 2009 Virginia Woolf Conference

Anne Fernald (AF) Katherine Lanpher (KL) Susan Sellers (SS) Ruth Gruber (RG) Kris Lundberg (K)

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Conference Program

Notes