Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1 Vol. 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

"The essays in this volume offer new insights on different aspects of Woolf's aesthetics and influences, exploring the relationships between her writing and different creative forms and tracing early influences on her work. The chapters look beyond Woolf to her Bloomsbury contemporaries and others, and even back beyond Bloomsbury"--Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: Contents * List of Abbreviations * Preface * Notes on Contributors * Back to Bloomsbury C.Woolf * The Voyage Back: Woolfs revisions and returns S.Raitt * Young writers might do worse: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Virginia Stephen and Virginia Woolf; B.R.Daugherty * Mapping the Ghostly City: Cambridge, A Room of Ones Own and the University Novel A.Bogen * London Rooms M.Shiach * Leonard and Virginias London Library: Mapping Londons Tides, Streams and Statues E.K.Sparks * Sense of Self and Sense of Place in Orlando: Virginia Woolfs Aesthetics of Pantomime C.Marie * My own ghost met me: Woolfs 1930s photographs, death and Freuds Acropolis M.Humm * Woolf, Fry, and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity B.Harvey * Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature C.Alt * Comparative Modernism: The Bloomsbury Group and the Harlem Renaissance K.Czarnecki * Sketches of Carlyles House by Two Visitors, a Young Virginia Woolf and a Japanese Novelist, Soseki Natsume M.Minow-Pinkney * Bibliography* Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Back to Bloomsbury....Pages 1-8 The Voyage Back: Woolf’s Revisions and Returns....Pages 9-19 ‘Young writers might do worse’: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Virginia Stephen and Virginia Woolf....Pages 20-36 Mapping the Ghostly City: Cambridge, A Room of One’s Own and the University Novel....Pages 37-49 London Rooms....Pages 50-63 Leonard and Virginia’s London Library: Mapping London’s Tides, Streams and Statues....Pages 64-74 Sense of Self and Sense of Place in Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s Aesthetics of Pantomime....Pages 75-85 ‘My own ghost met me’: Woolf’s 1930s Photographs, Death and Freud’s Acropolis....Pages 86-103 Woolf, Fry and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity....Pages 104-120 Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature....Pages 121-134 Comparative Modernism: The Bloomsbury Group and the Harlem Renaissance....Pages 135-152 Sketches of Carlyle’s House by Two Visitors, a Young Virginia Woolf and a Japanese Novelist, Sōseki Natsume....Pages 153-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-188 Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and aesthetics of Bloomsbury. The politics volume addresses war, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and the transformation of the public sphere by technology. Informing each essay is an understanding of Woolf's relevance to contemporary political issues. Much of the volume focuses on the creation of new communities and new terms of identification in Bloomsbury and in Woolf's work informed by a range of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives including feminism, postcolonialism, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies. Featuring work by an international group of scholars, this collection includes essays by Gillian Beer, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Jane Goldman, Brenda Silver, Anna Snaith and the economist Craufurd Goodwin amongst others Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and aesthetics of Bloomsbury. The aesthetics volume brings together new scholarship on Woolf's writing, which illuminate the wide and continuing reverberations of Woolf's writing. The chapters in this volume consider themes including eco-criticism, women as intellectuals and writers, implications of spaces and places, questions of identity and ideas of the self, and how Woolf's work has influenced writers from outside Woolf's own literary circle and cultural milieu. Featuring work by an international group of scholars, this collection includes essays by Christina Alt, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Maggie Humm, Suzanne Raitt and Morag Shiach. The volume opens with an affectionate personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf The essays in this volume offer new insights on different aspects of Woolf's aesthetics and influences, exploring the relationships between her writing and different creative forms and tracing early influences on her work. The chapters look beyond Woolf to her Bloomsbury contemporaries and others, and even back beyond Bloomsbury --Provided by publisher. This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

The essays in this volume offer new insights on different aspects of Woolf's aesthetics and influences, exploring the relationships between her writing and different creative forms and tracing early influences on her work. The chapters look beyond Woolf to her Bloomsbury contemporaries and others, and even back beyond Bloomsbury.