Locating Woolf: The Politics of Space and Place

by A. Snaith (Editor), M. Whitworth (Editor)

Overview

This book offers an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer innovative and interdisciplinary readings on topics such as London's imperial spaces and the gendering of space.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349352852
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

IAN BLYTH AHRC Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK KURT KOENIGSBERGER Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA SEI KOSUGI Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan JANE LEWTY Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century British Literature in the Department of English, University of Northern Iowa, USA SUZANNE LYNCH Independent scholar and freelance journalist LEENA KORE SCHRÖDER Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK NOBUYOSHI OTA Associate Professor in English at Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan LINDEN PEACH Professor and Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK TRACY SEELEY Teaches Victorian and Twentieth-Century British Literature and nonfiction creative writing at the University of San Francisco, USA HELEN SOUTHWORTH Assistant Professor of Literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, USA

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Approaches to Space and Place in Woolf; A.Snaith & M.H.Whitworth PART I: GENDERED SPACES Flights of Fancy: Spatial Digression and Storytelling in A Room of One's Own ; T.Seeley Women and Interruption in Between the Acts ; H.Southworth PART II: URBAN AND RURAL SPACES 'Re-reading Sickert's Interiors': Woolf, English Art and the Representation of Domestic Space; L.Peach Representing Nation and Nature: Woolf, Kelly, White; S.Kosugi PART III: POSTCOLONIAL SPACES Virginia Woolf and the Empire Exhibition of 1924: Modernism, Excess and the Verandahs of Realism; K. Koenigsberger Virginia Woolf and Ireland: The Significance of Patrick in The Years ; S.Lynch PART IV:NEW TECHNOLOGIES 'Reflections in a Motor Car': Woolf's Phenomenological Relations of Time and Space; L.K.Schröder Virginia Woolf and the Synapses of Radio; J.Lewty PART V: TRANSCULTURAL SPACES 'Our Commitments to China': Migration and the Geopolitical Unconscious of The Waves ; N.Ota Orlando and the Tudor Voyages; I.Blyth Works Cited Index

Editorial Reviews

'Each chapter offers illuminating and innovative readings of space and place in Woolf. This is an excellent collection of essays and will be a critical touchstone for years to come.' - Dr Jane Goldman, Department of English, University of Dundee, UK

'...the range and diversity of its essays is perhaps the most striking feature of this collection.' - Eric Sandberg, Partial Answers

'It is a volume that should be a reference point for all future studies of Woolf, not only those interested in work on spatial themes, and the editors should be commended for the care and attention they have devoted to the selection and presentation of the essays, which often connent and overlap in their interests, enriching the coherence of the volume overall.' - Andrew Thacker, The Review of English Studies

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