Virginia Woolf in Context [Hardcover]

Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.Virginia Woolf in Context provides an authoritative contextual resource that examines the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural orientation of the author's work. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, the collection offers original scholarship on Woolf's relationship to key twentieth-century issues while highlighting ways in which Woolf is contextualized today.Virginia Woolf in Context provides an authoritative contextual resource that examines the historical, theoretical, critical, and cultural orientation of the author's work. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, the collection offers original scholarship on Woolf's relationship to key twentieth-century issues while highlighting ways in which Woolf is contextualized today.As a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. 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. A valuable critilÃ*