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Subject(s)

• Editing—Congresses [Browse]
• Women and literature—England—History—20th century—Congresses [Browse]
• Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941—Political and social views—Congresses [Browse]
• Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941—Criticism and interpretation—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Evans, Elizabeth F. [Browse]
• Cornish, Sarah E. [Browse]

Summary note

Woolf and the City collects important essays selected from the nearly 200 papers delivered at the nineteenth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an introduction by the editors, the conference keynote addresses, and twenty-five essays organized around six presiding themes: Navigating London; Spatial Perceptions and the Cityscape; Regarding Others; The Literary Public Sphere; Border Crossings, and Liminal Landscapes; and Teaching Woolf, Woolf Teaching. It also includes a special session of the conference, a round-table conversation on Woolf's legacy in and out of the academy. Beyond the volume's focus on urban issues, many of the essays address the ethical and political implications of Woolf's work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a "real world" social critic. The contributors, who include Ruth Gruber, Molly Hite, Mark Hussey, Tamar Katz, Eleanor McNees, Kathryn Simpson, and Rishona Zimring, advance Woolf studies and the broader fields of narrative studies, cultural geography, urban theory, phenomenology, and gender studies.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Contents

• Introduction / Elizabeth F. Evans and Sarah E. Cornish
• Keynotes: Pausing, waiting, repeating: urban temporality in Mrs. Dalloway and The years / Tamar Katz; The years, street music, and acoustic space (abstract of plenary address) / Anna Snaith; "You then": Three guineas, the Spanish Civil War, and the challenge of total war (abstract of plenary address) / Jessica Berman
• Navigating London: Imagining Flânerie beyond anthropocentrism: Virginia Woolf, the London archipelago, and city tortoises / Caroline Pollentier; Public transport in Woolf's city novels: The London omnibus / Eleanor McNees; Virginia Woolf underground / Alexandra Harris; "Street Haunting," commodity culture, and the woman artist / Kathryn Simpson; A city in the archives: Virginia Woolf and the statues of London / Diane F. Gillespie
• Spatial Perceptions and the Cityscape: Queering London: Virginia Woolf and the politics of perception / Kimberly Engdahl Coates; Reconfigured terrain: Aural architecture in Jacob's room and The years / Elicia Clements; "Dark pours over the outlines of houses and towers": Virginia Woolf's prismatic poetics of space / Federico Sabatini
• Regarding Others: Woolf and the falling man / Mark Hussey; "How Strange": Affective and evaluative uncertainty in Mrs. Dalloway / Molly Hite; Cosmopolitanism from below in Mrs. Dalloway and "Street Haunting" / Christine W. Sizemore
• The Literary Public Sphere: The bestseller and the city: Flush, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and cultural hierarchies / Melissa Sullivan; To "make that country our own country": The years, novelistic historiography, and the 1930s / Erica Gene Delsando; Between public and private acts: Woolf's anti-fascist strategies / Mia Spiro; Metropolis unbound: Virginia Woolf's heterotopian utopian impulse / Elisa Kay Sparks; New world archives: Scattered seeds of a new scholarship / Suzanne Bellamy
• Border Crossings and Liminal Landscapes: Continuing urban and rural transgressive sexualities in Jacob's room / Vara Neverow; "No room for more": Woolf's journey from London to Scotland, 1938 / Rishona Zimring; "[D]irectly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different": Hotel life and The voyage out / Randi Saloman; An archive in the city: "True Pictures" and animated news films of suffragettes in the holographs of Virginia Woolf's "The Movies" in the Berg Collection / Leslie Kathleen Hankins; "When dogs will become men": Melancholia, canine allegories, and theriocephalous figures in Woolf's urban contact zones / Jane Goldman
• Teaching Woolf, Woolf Teaching: The streets of London: Virginia Woolf's development of a pedagogical style / Beth Rigel Daugherty; "Find our own way for ourselves": Orlando as an uncommon reader in the critical theory classroom / Cheryl Hindrichs; Recreating Woolf's public and private spaces in architectural design education / Sevinc Kurt; Virginia Woolf in the cyber city: Connecting in the virtual public square / Paula Maggio
• Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation: Forward: The legacy of Virginia Woolf / Megan Branch; Inspired by Woolf: a conversation / Ruth Gruber, Katherine Lanpher, and Susan Sellers with Kris Lundberg.

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ISBN

• 1-78138-222-0
• 1-942954-15-8

OCLC

973831167

Doi

• 10.3828/9780984259830

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