Virginia Woolf and Capitalism (Virginia Woolf – Variations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399514091 ISBN 13: 9781399514095

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf’s engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire in Woolf’s writing, this collection draws attention to her thinking about history, labour and economics and gives space for understandings of Woolf in the context of our own late-capitalist moment. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars range across Woolf's oeuvre in all its generic diversity, from her earliest short fiction and Night and Day to Three Guineas and Between the Acts, showcasing a range of critical approaches from the archival to the creative to the pedagogical. This collection demonstrates how productive and provocative thinking about Woolf’s fiction and non-fiction through the lens of capitalism can be for Woolf scholars.

About this title

About the Author

Clara Jones is a Reader in Modern Literature at King’s College London. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (2016) and the edited collection Virginia Woolf and Capitalism (2024).

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399514091
• ISBN 13: 9781399514095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Jones Clara