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Virginia Woolf and Heritage

Jane deGay, Tom Breckin, and Anne Reus

Abstract

This volume situates Virginia Woolf in relation to the past. A range of articles from leading Woolf scholars demonstrate that despite her fame as a leading Modernist novelist, Woolf also drew on a rich cultural, literal and familiar heritage in her writing. Prominent themes include education and mentoring, heritage spaces, literary and cultural pasts, and Woolf’s exploration of queer pasts. It also assesses her own literary and biographical legacy, including recent works of biofiction, and the reception of Woolf’s work by writers in France, Poland, Romania and North America.

Keywords: Virginia Woolf, heritage sites, literary traditions, family heritage, lifewriting/biofiction, queer pasts

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2018 Print ISBN-13: 9781942954422
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: September 2018 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781942954422.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Jane deGay, editor
Leeds Trinity University

Tom Breckin, editor
Leeds Trinity University

Anne Reus, editor
Leeds Trinity University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Introduction

Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations

Heritage: A Debate

“Her—it—age!”: Virginia Woolf and Syllabic Intervention—Or, “Heritage is a Kim Novak word”

Jane Goldman

Heritage, Education, and Mentoring

“The Very Centre of the Very Centre”: H. A. L. Fisher, Oxford, and “That Great Patriarchal Machine”

David Bradshaw

Virginia Stephen’s Uneasy Heritage: Lessons, Readers, and Class

Beth Rigel Daugherty

Teaching Virginia Woolf in Sin City: Vegas Entertainers and a New Feminist Heritage

Kaylee Baucom

Out-takes from Upstarts: Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Heritage of Dissent, or, “There She Wasn’t?”

Jean Mills

Virginia Woolf’s Female Heritage: The Legacy of Anny Thackeray Ritchie, Woolf’s “Transparent Medium”

Marion Dell

Heritage Spaces

Virginia Woolf and the Artistic Heritage of St. Ives

Maggie Humm

“The little bit of power I had myself”: Lady Lasswade’s Shifting Sense of Place in The Years

Ann Martin

Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf’s Between the Acts

Marlowe A. Miller

Heritage Hoarding: Artifacts, Archives, and Ambiguity, or, the Saga of Virginia Woolf’s Standing Desk

Leslie Kathleen Hankins

“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”: Vanessa Bell’s Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as Monument to Virginia Woolf

Hana Leaper

Literary and Cultural Heritages

Virginia Woolf in Greece: “Curious contrasts!”: Hellenism and Englishness

Jeanette McVicker

Whose Idea of Tragedy? Mrs Dalloway and the Ancient Greek Tradition

Elizabeth Gourd

Silence, Darkness, and Dirt: Mysticism and Materiality in The Years and Between the Acts

Elizabeth Anderson

Virginia Woolf Reads the Romantics

Davi Pinho

A Critical Heritage: Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, and Walter Scott

Danielle Gilman

“Where Childhood’s dreams are twined”: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Heritage of Lewis Carroll

Lois Gilmore

Queer Pasts

Sex and Literary History in Orlando

Gaura Narayan

Queer Elizabeth: Early/Modern Feeling in Orlando and Elizabeth and Essex

Matthew Clarke

Persuading Rachel: Woolf and Austen’s “little voyage of discovery”

Kathryn Simpson

“The world…seen from this angle undoubtedly looks queer”: History, Heritage, and the Queer Domesticity of Between the Acts

Mary Wilson

Modernism and Heritage

Resetting the Type: An Exploration of the Historical Sense in Mrs. Dalloway

Savannah Pignatelli

Kenya Colony and the Kenya Novel: The East African Heritage of “A Very Fine Negress” in A Room of One’s Own

Jeanne Dubino

Leonard Woolf’s Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo: Satirical Heritage as Apocalyptic Prophecy

Vara Neverow

Virginia Woolf and the War on Books: Cultural Heritage and Dis-Heritage in the 1930s

Diane F. Gillespie

Gender Roles and the War Machine: An Undergraduate Roundtable on Virginia Woolf’s Legacies

Mary Anthony, Carly Carman, Malyn Maloney, Emma Slotterback

Writing Lives and Histories

The Play of Fact and Fiction in Virginia Stephen’s “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn”

Heidi Stalla

“Writing the history of my own times”: Virginia Woolf and the Diary

Ella Ophir

Heritage, Legacy, and the Life-Writing of Woolf and Rhys

Kristin Czarnecki

Life as Legacy: Truth, Fiction, and Fidelity of Representation in Biographical Novels Featuring Virginia Woolf

Laura Cernat

From the Author to the Icon: A Heritage of Virginia Woolf in French Biographies and Biofictions

Anne-Laure Rigeade

Flights of Archival Imagination: Woolf’s Transcendent Materiality in Contemporary “Archive Fiction”

Lucy Smith

Woolf’s Legacies

“A shadow crossed the tail of his eye”: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania: Heritage Transformed

Adriana Varga

Woolf’s Imaginarium: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Legacy to Contemporary Polish Culture

Paulina Pająk

An Office of Her Own? Alice Munro and the Legacy of Writing with In-Authority

Eva Mendez

Thinking Back through Virginia Woolf: Woolf as Portal in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children

Catherine W. Hollis

The Malicious Gene: An Evolutionary Games Strategy? Woolf’s Hawkish Inheritance

Gill Lowe

Finale

“Some ancestral dread:” Woolf, Autobiography, and the Question of “Shame”

Laura Marcus

End Matter

Notes on Contributors