Research Catalog

Title

Virginia Woolf and heritage : selected papers from the twenty-sixth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf / edited by by Jane de Gay, Tom Breckin, and Anne Reus.

Author

Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (26th : 2016 : Leeds, Yorkshire), creator.

Publication

• Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Gay, Jane, 1966-
• Breckin, Tom
• Reus, Anne

Description

xiii, 285 pages ; illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Selected papers from the twenty-sixth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
• History in literature > Congresses
• Historic sites in literature > Congresses
• Historic sites in literature
• History in literature

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Jane de Gay, Anne Reus, and Tom Breckin.
• 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 / Gil Lowe.
• Finale. "Some ancestral dread": Woolf, autobiography, and the question of "shame" / Laura Marcus.

Call Number

JFE 18-2252

ISBN

• 9781942954422
• 1942954425

OCLC

1000392154

Conference

Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (26th : 2016 : Leeds, Yorkshire), creator.

Title

Virginia Woolf and heritage : selected papers from the twenty-sixth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf / edited by by Jane de Gay, Tom Breckin, and Anne Reus.

Publisher

Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

De Gay, Jane, 1966- editor.

Breckin, Tom, editor.

Reus, Anne, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2252