Contributor
Fernald, Anne E. editor.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Descriptionxx, 661 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:Part I. Life -- Family and Place / Urmila Seshagiri -- Friends and Lovers / Kathryn Simpson -- Traditions and Transformations / Regina Marler -- Part II. Texts -- Private Writings / Caroline Pollentier -- Early Novels and Stories (1915-1923) / Jocelyn Rodal -- Mature Works I (1924-1927) / Jocelyn Rodal -- Mature Works II (1928-1932) / Elsa Hoegberg -- Late Works (1933-1941) / Alice Wood -- Part III. Experiments in Form and Style -- Stream of Consciousness / Dora Zhang -- Character, Form, and Fiction / Amy Bromley -- Time / Jesse Matz -- Narrative Ethics / Janine Utell -- Allusion and Metaphor / Jane de Gay -- Biography and Autobiography / Laura Marcus --Part IV. Professions of Writing -- Literary London / Helen Southworth -- The Hogarth Press / Alice Staveley -- Woolf as Reviewer-Critic / Eleanor McNees -- The Essays / Beth C. Rosenberg -- The Lyrical Mode of Translating / Claire Davison -- Part V. Contexts -- Woolf's Feminism / Stephanie J Brown -- Queer Theory / Chris Coffman -- Woolf and Education / Anna Snaith -- Woolf and Suffrage / Barbara Green -- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism / Tamar Katz -- Oceans and Empire / Maxwell Uphaus -- Biopower / Madelyn Detloff -- The Natural World and the Anthropocene / Cliff Mak -- War and Peace / Beryl Pong -- Work / Mary Wilson -- Consumer Culture / Elizabeth M. Sheehan -- Part VI. Afterlives -- Feminist Theory / Jean Mills -- Disability, Illness, and Pain / Elizabeth Outka -- The Academy and Publishing / Vara Neverow -- Modern Woolfian Fiction / Roxana Robinson -- Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction / Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez -- Narrative Futures of the Feminist Novel / Tonya Krause -- Creative Non-fiction and Poetry / Stacey D'Erasmo -- Virginia Woolf, Filmmaker / Jacqueline Shin -- Woolfian Afterlives / Laura Smith.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf's life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf's practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf's experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf's writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while 'Professions of Writing', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the Hogarth Press and the TLS. The 'Contexts' section moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final section on afterlives demonstrates the many ways Woolf's reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.
