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Virginia Woolf: Writing the World

Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson

Abstract

Virginia Woolf Writing the World addresses such themes as the creation of worlds through literary writing, Woolf’s reception as a world writer, world wars, and natural worlds in Woolf’s writings. The collection represents the theme of internationalism in Woolf’s work, but its global appeal is likewise reflected in the diverse range of contributors from around the world. The volume is divided into four themed sections: “War and Peace”; “World Writer(s),” which reads the Woolfs in a global context; “Animal and Natural Worlds,” which brings recent developments in ecocriticism and post-humanist st ... More

Keywords: Virginia Woolf, War, Peace, Feminism, Ecocriticism, Current affairs, Global, World literature, Literary form, Postcolonial

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780990895800
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780990895800.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Pamela L. Caughie, editor
Loyola University Chicago

Diana L. Swanson, editor
Northern Illinois University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations

War and Peace

Roundtable: Woolf and Violence

Mark Hussey, withSarah Cole, J. Ashley Foster, Christine Froula, andJean Mills

Intersections: Surveillance, Propaganda, and Just War

Judith Allen

Modernism and Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Christopher Isherwood

Erica Gene Delsandro

Taking Up Her Pen for World Peace: Virginia Woolf, Feminist Pacifist. Or Not?

Paula Maggio

The Sex War and the Great War: Woolf’S Late Victorian Inheritance in Three Guineas

Christine Haskill

Sky Haunting: The British Motor-Car Industry and the World Wars1

Ann Martin

The 1914 “Expurgated Chunk”: The Great War in and out of The Years

Eleanor McNees

“beauty, simplicity and peace”: Faithful Pacifism, Activist Writing, and The Years

Charles Andrews

Virginia Woolf, Katharine Burdekin, and Britain’s Cosmopolitan Musical Culture

David Deutsch

Death in the Air: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner in World War II

Maud Ellmann

World Writer(s)

Teaching Privileges: Three Guineas and the Cost of Global Citizenship

David J. Fine

From Guineas to Riyals: Teaching Woolf in the Middle East

Erin Amann Holliday-Karre

Fashionable Misconceptions: The Creation of the East in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Matthew Beeber

From London to Taipei: Writing the Past in “Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream” and Mrs. Dalloway

Shao-Hua Wang

An Estranged Intimacy with the World: The Postcolonial Woolf’s Planetary Love in The Voyage Out

Alan Chih-chien Hsieh

“Shakespeare’s Sister”: Woolf in the World Before A Room of One’s Own

Susan Stanford Friedman

Leonard Woolf: Writing the World of Palestine, Zionism, and the State of Israel

Steven Putzel

Animal and Natural Worlds

“And the donkey brays”: Donkeys at Work in Virginia Woolf

Elizabeth Hanna Hanson

Companion Creatures: “Dogmanity” in Three Guineas

Vicki Tromanhauser

Virginia Woolf’s Object-Oriented Ecology

Elsa Högberg

The Bodies In/Are The Waves

Michael Tratner

Stretching our “Antennae”: Converging Worlds of the Seen and the Unseen in “Kew Gardens”

Joyce E. Kelley

“The Problem of Space”: Embodied Language and the Body in Nature in To the Lighthouse

Kim Sigouin

“Whose Woods These Are”: Virginia Woolf and the Primeval Forests of the Mind

Elisa Kay Sparks

Writing and Worldmaking

Negative Feminism and Anti-Development in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out

Anne Cunningham

Upheavals of Intimacy in To the Lighthouse

Maayan P. Dauber

The Reconciliations of Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts; or, Why it’s “perfectly ridiculous to call it a novel”

Amy Kahrmann Huseby

Virginia Woolf, Composition Theorist: How Imagined Audiences Can Wreck a Writer

Kelle Sills Mullineaux

The Precarity of “Civilization” in Woolf’s Creative Worldmaking

Madelyn Detloff

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Conference Program

Appendix