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Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies

Abstract

This book presents chapters which present discussions delivered at the 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme of the conference, the concept of “common(wealth),” addresses geographical, political, and imaginary spaces in which different readers and readings vie for primacy of place. The chapters reflect upon “common(wealth)” as a constructed entity, one that necessarily embodies tensions between the communal and individual, traditional culture and emergent forms, indigenous people and colonial powers, ... More

Keywords: Virginia Woolf, commonwealth, imaginary spaces, place, constructed entity, traditional culture, emergent forms, colonial powers

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9780989082679
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780989082679.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Helen Wussow, editor
Simon Fraser University

Mary Ann Gillies, editor
Simon Fraser University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Invocations

Renée Sarojini Saklikar

Networks of Affiliation: Foundations and Friends

Education and Empire in Victorian Bloomsbury

Rosemary Ashton

Synthesizing Civilizations

Wayne K. Chapman

James Stephen’s Anti-Slavery Politics

Jane de Gay

Networks of Empire

Jeanne Dubino

Of Scrapbooks, War, and Newspapers

Beth Rigel Daugherty

Leslie Stephen’s Science of (Ecological) Ethics

Catherine W. Hollis

“The Death of a Beautiful Man”

Paul Delany

Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service

Lolly Ockerstrom

Virginia Woolf in the British Commonwealth

Sonita Sarker

Woolf and the Commonwealth

“Simplicity and Art Shades Reign Supreme”

Jane Stafford

Wealth in Common

Kathryn Simpson

On a View from the Rims

Mary Ann Gillies

London Calling

Elizabeth F. Evans

Modernism Across the Commonwealth

Elsa Hӧgberg

From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes

Melinda Smith

1930s Onwards

War, Peace, Internationalism

Christine Froula

“Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite”

Ira Nadel

“Drawn from Our Island History”

Erica Delsandro

A “Bloodless and Pernicious Pest”

Martin Winquist

Woolf’s Troubled and Troubling Relationship to Race

Lisa Coleman

Woolfian Seamarks

Patrizia A. Muscogiuri

Documenting Fascism in Three Guineas and The Handmaid’s Tale

Vara Neverow

Proportion, Conversion, Transition

Kristin Czarnecki

Woolf Beyond the Book

Preserving Our History of Reading Woolf

Karen Levenback

Adventures in Common

Diane F. Gillespie

Printing “Prelude”

Leslie Kathleen Hankins

The Hogarth Press, Digital Humanities, and Collaboration

Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth, and Claire Battershill

Woolf Blogging, Blogging Woolf

Paula Maggio

End Matter

Contributors

Conference Program