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Virginia Woolf and heritage : selected papers from the twenty-sixth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
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- Conferences
- Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (26th : 2016 : Leeds, Yorkshire), creator
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- Creator
- edited by by Jane de Gay, Tom Breckin, and Anne Reus
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- xiii, 285 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781786944368, 9781942954439, 1942954433, 1942954425, 1786944367, 9781942954422
- OCLC
- on1018164165, on1000392154
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Jane de Gay, Anne Reus, and Tom Breckin
- Heritage: A Debate. “Her—it—age!”: Virginia Woolf and syllabic intervention— Or, “heritage is a Kim Novak word” / Jane Goldman
- Heritage, education, and mentoring. “The very centre of the very centre”: H. A. L. Fisher, Oxford, and “that great patriarchal machine” / David Bradshaw -- Virginia Stephen’s uneasy heritage: lessons, readers, and class / Beth Rigel Daugherty -- Teaching Virginia Woolf in sin city: Vegas entertainers and a new feminist heritage / Kaylee Baucom -- Out-takes from upstarts: Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the heritage of dissent, or, “there she wasn’t?” / Jean Mills -- Virginia Woolf ’s female heritage: the legacy of Anny Thackeray Ritchie, Woolf ’s “transparent medium” / Marion Dell
- Heritage spaces. Virginia Woolf and the artistic heritage of St. Ives / Maggie Humm -- “The little bit of power I had myself ”: Lady Lasswade’s shifting sense of place in The Years / Ann Martin -- Through the arch: the country house and the tradition of English tyranny in Woolf ’s Between the Acts / Marlowe A. Miller -- Heritage hoarding: artifacts, archives, and ambiguity, or, the saga of Virginia Woolf ’s standing desk / Leslie Kathleen Hankins -- “Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”: Vanessa Bell’s Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as monument to Virginia Woolf / Hana Leaper
- Literary and cultural heritages. Virginia Woolf in Greece: “curious contrasts!”: Hellenism and Englishness / Jeanette McVicker -- Whose idea of tragedy? Mrs Dalloway and the Ancient Greek tradition / Elizabeth Gourd -- Silence, darkness, and dirt: mysticism and materiality in The Years and Between the Acts / Elizabeth Anderson -- Virginia Woolf reads the romantics / Davi Pinho -- A critical heritage: Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, and Walter Scott / Danielle Gilman -- “Where childhood’s dreams are twined”: Virginia Woolf and the literary heritage of Lewis Carroll / Lois Gilmore
- Queer Pasts. Sex and literary history in Orlando / Gaura Narayan -- Queer Elizabeth: early/modern feeling in Orlando and Elizabeth and Essex / Matthew Clarke -- Persuading Rachel: Woolf and Austen’s “little voyage of discovery” / Kathryn Simpson -- “The world…seen from this angle undoubtedly looks queer”: history, heritage, and the queer domesticity of Between the Acts / Mary Wilson
- Modernism and Heritage. Resetting the type: an exploration of the historical sense in Mrs. Dalloway / Savannah Pignatelli -- Kenya colony and the Kenya novel: The East African heritage of “A very fine negress” in A Room of One’s Own / Jeanne Dubino -- Leonard Woolf ’s Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo: satirical heritage as apocalyptic prophecy / Vara Neverow -- Virginia Woolf and the war on books: cultural heritage and dis-heritage in the 1930s / Diane F. Gillespie -- Gender roles and the war machine: an undergraduate roundtable on Virginia Woolf ’s legacies / Mary Anthony, Carly Carman, Malyn Maloney, Emma Slotterback
- Writing Lives and Histories. The play of fact and fiction in Virginia Stephen’s “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn” / Heidi Stalla -- “Writing the history of my own times”: Virginia Woolf and the diary / Ella Ophir -- Heritage, legacy, and the life-writing of Woolf and Rhys / Kristin Czarnecki -- Life as legacy: truth, fiction, and fidelity of representation in biographical novels featuring Virginia Woolf / Laura Cernat -- From the author to the icon: a heritage of Virginia Woolf in French biographies and biofictions / Anne-Laure Rigeade -- Flights of archival imagination: Woolf ’s transcendent materiality in contemporary “archive fiction” / Lucy Smith
- Woolf’s Legacies. “A shadow crossed the tail of his eye”: the reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania: heritage transformed / Adriana Varga -- Woolf ’s Imaginarium: exploring Virginia Woolf ’s legacy to contemporary Polish culture / Paulina Pająk -- An office of her own? Alice Munro and the legacy of writing with in-authority / Eva Mendez -- Thinking back through Virginia Woolf: Woolf as portal in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children / Catherine W. Hollis -- The malicious gene: an evolutionary games strategy? Woolf ’s hawkish inheritance / Gil Lowe
- Finale. “Some ancestral dread”: Woolf, autobiography, and the question of “shame” / Laura Marcus