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Title Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury. Volume 2, International influence and politics / edited by Gina Potts, Lisa Shahriari
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Contents Woolf in Wartime and Townsend Warner Too / G. Beer -- Virginia Woolf, 'Patriotism, ' and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors' / J. Allen -- Woolf's Political Aesthetic in 'To Spain, ' Three Guineas, and Between the Acts / M. Payne -- Who let the dogs out? Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Virginia Woolf, and the Little Brown Dog / J. Goldman -- Virginia Woolf as Policy Analyst / C. Goodwin -- Unpinning Economies of Desire: Gifts and the Market in 'Moments of Being: 'Slater's Pins Have no Points'' / K. Simpson -- How Should One Sell a Book? Production Methods, Material Objects, and Marketing at the Hogarth Press / E. Willson Gordon -- 'The Book is Still Warm': The Hogarth Press in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / D. Patrick Shannon -- Conversations in Bloomsbury: Colonial Writers and the Hogarth Press / A. Snaith -- World Modeling: Paradigms of Global Consciousness in and around Virginia Woolf / M. Cuddy-Keane -- Small Talk/New Networks: Virginia Woolf's Virtual Publics / B. Silver
Summary Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and aesthetics of Bloomsbury. The politics volume addresses war, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and the transformation of the public sphere by technology. Informing each essay is an understanding of Woolf's relevance to contemporary political issues. Much of the volume focuses on the creation of new communities and new terms of identification in Bloomsbury and in Woolf's work informed by a range of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives including feminism, postcolonialism, economics, anthropology, and cultural studies. Featuring work by an international group of scholars, this collection includes essays by Gillian Beer, Melba Cuddy-Keane, Jane Goldman, Brenda Silver, Anna Snaith and the economist Craufurd Goodwin amongst others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Settings
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics
Setting (Literature)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Potts, Gina, 1973-
Shahriari, Lisa, 1975-
ISBN 9780230282957
0230282954
Other Titles International influence and politics