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Author Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (26th : 2016 : Leeds, Yorkshire)

Title Virginia Woolf and heritage : selected papers from the twenty-sixth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf / edited by by Jane de Gay, Tom Breckin, and Anne Reus
Published Clemson : Clemson University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages)
Contents 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
Summary This book brings together an international team of world-class scholars to explore how Woolf engaged with heritage, how she understood and represented it, and how she has been represented by the heritage industry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Subject History in literature -- Congresses
Historic sites in literature -- Congresses
Literature & literary studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Historic sites in literature
History in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author De Gay, Jane, 1966- editor.
Breckin, Tom, editor
Reus, Anne, editor
ISBN 9781942954439
1942954433