The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

Jeanne Dubino

ISBN 10: 147444847X / ISBN 13: 9781474448475

Published by Edinburgh University Press Mär 2021, 2021

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Neuware - A collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolf's writing on contemporary global literature and cultureTo capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf's work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction. This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolf's global reception and legacy. It contests the 'centre' and 'periphery' binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.Jeanne Dubino is a Professor of English and Global Studies at Appalachian State University, USA.Paulina Pajak is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Catherine Hollis is an Instructor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. Celiese Lypka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature at the University of Manitoba, Canada.Vara Neverow is a Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Southern Connecticut State University, USA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Mär 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147444847X
• ISBN 13: 9781474448475
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 251W x 180H x 32D millimeters 251 millimeters width by 180 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 935 grams

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Synopsis

To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction. This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolf’s global reception and legacy. It contests the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.

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).

Paulina Pająk, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław (ORCID: 0000-0001-6911-1284). She is a principal investigator on the research project Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist publishing networks and the Bloomsbury Group in interwar Poland (SONATA no. 2023/51/D/HS2/02041), funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. Her research and publications focus on modernist literature and legacies, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, interwar print culture and publishing networks.

Catherine W. Hollis teaches writing in University of California Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshmen. She has also worked as an assistant editor for the Emma Goldman Papers Project. She is the author of Leslie Stephen as Mountaineer (Cecil Woolf, 2010) as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and modernist women’s communities.

Celiese Lypka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature at University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Her publications include ‘Virginia Woolf: Mobilizing Emotion, Feeling, and Affect.’ Spec Iss of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 97 and Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

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).