Trespassing Boundaries Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction [Hardcover]

In Trespassing Boundaries , ten contemporary Woolf scholars discuss a broad range of Woolf's short stories. Despite being now easily available these stories have not yet received the attention they deserve. Complex yet involving, they deserve to be read not only for the light they shed on the novels, but in their own right, as major contributions to the short fiction as a genre. This volume places Woolf's short stories in the context of modernist experimentalism, then explores them as ambitious attempts to challenge generic boundaries, undercutting traditional distinctions between short fiction and the novel, between experimental and popular fiction, between fiction and nonfiction. Collectively the essays suggest that Woolf's contribution to the short story is as important as her contribution to the novel.Foreword; S.Dick Introduction; K.Benzel & R.Hoberman PART I: WOOLF'S SHORT FICTION IN THE CONTEXT OF BRITISH MODERNISM 'Through a Glass, Longingly'; J.Trautmann Banks 'Virginia Woolf's 'Shorter, More Concentrated Form of Fiction''; M.Levy 'Collecting, Shopping, and Reading: Virginia Woolf's Stories about Objects'; R.Hoberman 'The Lesbian Intratext of Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction'; K.Colburn 'Woolf and Chekhov'; N.Skrbic PART II: WOOLF'S SHORT FICTION AS GENERIC BOUNDARY-BREAKER ''A Corridor Leading from Mrs. Dalloway to a New Book': Virginia Woolf Revising'; B.Rigel Daugherty A View of One's Own': Writing Women's Lives and the Early Short Stories'; A.Snaith 'Verbal Painting in Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction: Lyricism in Monday or Tuesday'; K.N.Benzel 'Cultivating Kew: Showing the Seeds of Critique, 1909'; A.Staveley

Trespassing Boundaries is an excellent collection of insightful and significant essays. Edited by the distinguished scholar-critics Kathryn N. Benzel and Ruth Hoberman - who themselves have contributed invaluable essays - this splendid volume will point the way to a reconsideration of Woolf's work in the genre of short fiction. - Danielâ