Woolf scholars have long debated how context – whether historical, cultural, or theoretical – is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualized today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war.
Contributors:
Jane Goldman, Bryony Randall, Michael Whitworth, Mark Hussey, Pam Morris, Anne Fernald, Claire Colebrook, Lisa Coleman, Sanja Bahun, Sonita Sarker, Morgne (Patricia) Cramer, Randall Stevenson, Jane Lilienfeld, Kathryn Simpson, Elena Gualtieri, Judith Allen, Anna Snaith, Heidi Stalla, David Bradshaw, Bonnie Kime Scott, Holly Henry, Suzanne Bellamy, Emma Sutton, Maggie Humm, Beth Wright, Drew Shannon, James Stewart, Perry Meisel, Madelyn Detloff, Ian Blyth, Derek Ryan, Carole Bourne-Taylor, Darya Protopopova, Thaine Stearns, Margaret Homans, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Linden Peach, Ruth Hoberman, Jessica Berman
Bryony Randall & Jane Goldman (ed.), Virginia Woolf in Context.
Cambridge: CUP, 2012, ISBN: 9781107003613