A Companion to Virginia Woolf [Paperback]

A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.

• Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research
• Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law
• Explores the multiple trajectories Woolfs work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America
• Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Textual Encounters 11

1 The Lives of Houses: Woolf and Biography 13
Alison Booth

2 The Short Fiction 27
Laura Marcus

3 Silence and Cries: The Exotic Soundscape of The Voyage Out 41
Emma Sutton

4 The Transitory Space of Night and Day 55
Elizabeth Outka

5 Jacobs Room: Occasions of War, Representations of History 67
Vincent Sherry

6 Mrs. Dalloway: Of Clocks and Clouds 79
Paul K. Saint-Amour

7 A Passage to the Lighthouse 95
Maud Ellmann

8 Orlandos Queer Animals 109
Derek Ryan

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