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1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) |
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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 |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 |
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History in literature -- Congresses
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Historic sites in literature -- Congresses
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Literature & literary studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Historic sites in literature
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History in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Gay, Jane, 1966- editor.
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Breckin, Tom, editor
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Reus, Anne, editor
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| ISBN |
9781942954439 |
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1942954433 |
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