Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 2 Vol. 2: International Influence and Politics

"This volume collects essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and transformations to the public sphere."--Publisher's description Cover 1 Contents 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 16 Notes on the Contributors 17 List of Abbreviations 20 1 Woolf in Wartime, and Townsend Warner Too 22 2 Virginia Woolf, 'Patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors' 38 3 Woolf's Political Aesthetic in "To Spain", Three Guineas, and Between the Acts 54 4 Who Let the Dogs Out? Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Virginia Woolf and the Little Brown Dog 67 5 Virginia Woolf as Policy Analyst 87 6 Unpinning Economies of Desire: Gifts and the Market in "Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have no Points' " 109 7 How Should One Sell a Book? Production Methods, Material Objects and Marketing at the Hogarth Press 128 8 'The Book is Still Warm': The Hogarth Press in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 145 9 Conversations in Bloomsbury: Colonial Writers and the Hogarth Press 159 10 World Modelling: Paradigms of Global Consciousness in and around Virginia Woolf 179 11 Small Talk/New Networks: Virginia Woolf's Virtual Publics 198 Bibliography 216 Index 230 A 230 B 230 C 231 D 232 E 232 F 232 G 233 H 233 I 234 J 234 K 234 L 234 M 235 N 235 O 236 P 236 Q 236 R 236 S 237 T 237 U 237 V 238 W 238 Y 239 Z 239 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 "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 from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and transformations to the public sphere.