Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First Century Approaches - Softcover

Jeanne Dubino; Gill Lowe; Vara Neverow; Kathryn Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474414133 ISBN 13: 9781474414135

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2016

Synopsis

These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century. Divided into 5 parts - Self and Identity; Language and Translation; Culture and Commodification; Human, Animal, and Nonhuman; and Genders, Sexualities, and Multiplicities - the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective, provisional, and contingent nature of Woolf's work. The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity and language and translation from multiple angles, including shifting textualities, culture, and the marketplace, critical animal studies, and discourses that fracture and re-envision gender and sexuality.

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About the Authors

Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), guest editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 50 (1997) and co-editor, with Beth C. Rosenberg, of Virginia Woolf and the Essay (St. Martin’s Press, 1997).

Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, School of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk.

Vara Neverow is a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (Harcourt, 2008) and, with Mark Hussey, of Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives (Pace University Press, 1994), Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations (Pace University Press, 1993) and Virginia Woolf Miscellanies (Pace University Press, 1992).

Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is the author of Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Virginia Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2013)

From the Back Cover

'A very timely offering of exciting new material and new readings, this book is at the cutting edge of a new turn to theory and philosophy in Woolf studies that is flexible enough to encompass material, cultural and historical as well as archival and editorial aspects, bringing into productive dialogue previously separated critical camps.' Jane Goldman, University of Glasgow Reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st-century focusing on coevolution, duality, and contradiction These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early 21st-century. Divided into 5 parts - Self and Identity; Language and Translation; Culture and Commodification; Human, Animal, and Nonhuman; and Genders, Sexualities, and Multiplicities - the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective, provisional, and contingent nature of Woolf's work. The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity and language and translation from multiple angles, including shifting textualities, culture, and the marketplace, critical animal studies, and discourses that fracture and re-envision gender and sexuality. Key Features * Extends existing critical work on Woolf * Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical author * Considers new configurations around Woolf's work in a postmillennial era Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies, Appalachian State University, North Carolina. Gill Lowe is Senior Lecturer in English at University Campus Suffolk, Department of Arts and Humanities, University Campus Suffolk. Vara Neverow is Professor of English and Women's Studies, English Department, Southern Connecticut State University. Kathryn Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474414133
• ISBN 13: 9781474414135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Jeanne Dubino, Gill Lowe, Vara Neverow, Kathryn Simpson