Virginia Woolf : turning the centuries : selected papers from the ninth annual Conference on Virginia Woolf : University of Delaware, June 10-13, 1999 / edited by Ann Ardis & Bonnie Kime Scott.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ardis, Ann L., 1957-

Scott, Bonnie Kime, 1944-

Conference Name:

Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (9th : 1999 : University of Delaware)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Women and literature--England--History--20th century--Congresses.

Women and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pace University Press, 2000.

Summary:

At the end of the twentieth century, the questions raised and issues explored in Woolf studies prove to be sufficient themes of inquiry for a new century. Can there exist common ground between queer theorists and lesbian-feminists, or are their causes not connected and must they go their separate ways? Virginia Woolf belongs simultaneously to her time and to ours: What allusions would her contemporaries have taken for granted that must now be recovered through meticulous scholarship? What codes whose meanings are apparent to readers now would have been available to very few in her own time? What was popular film culture like and what connections might we find between Woolf's art and British film of the 1920s? How can Woolf help us think through the dangers of nationalism? What does Three Guineas contribute to a discussion of corporate globalism? And how does it illuminate what has happened for women in the academy and in the professions in the sixty years since it was published?

Contents:

Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries / Ann Ardis, Bonnie Kime Scott 1

Scanning the Centuries

"On Not Knowing Greek": Virginia Woolf and the New Ancient Greece / Stephen J. Ramsay 6

Virginia Woolf, Renaissance Woman / Sally Greene 11

Thinking Back through Her Fathers: Virginia Woolf and Edward Gibbon / Gabrielle Dane 16

Those Well-Lit Corridors of History / Alison Booth 24

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Pamela L. Caughie 34

From Orlando Ever After: A Dramatic Speculation / Charles Boebel 40

Remote Inscriptions

"She Was No Scholar": Placing Mrs. Browning / Gyllian Phillips 56

"Parcival in the Forest of Gender": Wagner, Homosexuality, and The Waves / Tracey Sherard 62

The Problem of National Culture: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts and Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September / Lisa Golmitz Weihman 69

Feminist Conversation: Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Dialogies of Criticism / Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstrom 78

Remote Inscriptions: To the Lighthouse and The Waves in Julieta Campos' Caribbean / Monica Ayuso 86

New Applications of Queer Theory

Hocus Crocus / Judith Roof 93

The Place of Cross-Sex Friendship in Woolf Studies / Troy Gordon 102

Response / Eileen Barrett, Patricia Cramer 111

Trauma and Wellness

Metaphors of Illness and Wellness: John Donne, Virginia Woolf, and Susan Sontag / Diane Gillespie 127

Semicolons and Safety Pins / David Eberly 134

Woolf's Ancient Song: Traces of the Dead Echoing into the Future / Judith Greenberg 140

Virginia Woolf and Post-Traumatic Subjectivity / Suzette Henke 147

Accident, Incident, and Meaning: Traces of Trauma in Virginia Woolf's Narrativity / Jane Lilienfeld 153

Narration, Memory, and Identity: Mrs. Dalloway at the End of the Century / Marilyn Schwinn Smith 158

Life and Death Writing

In Search of New Virginias / Julia Briggs 166

"Beauty Shines on Two Dogs Doing What Two Women Must Not Do": Puppy Love, Same-Sex Desire and Homosexual Coding in Mrs. Dalloway / June Elizabeth Dunn 176

"A Responsible Person Like Her": Woolf's Suicide Culture / Val Gough 183

Textual Re-takes

Woolf's Early Experimentation with Consciousness: "Kew Gardens," Typescript to Publication, 1917-1919 / Kathryn N. Benzel 192

Re-Defining Feminist Fiction in The Years / Peter Naccarato 199

An Unfinished Story: The Freshwater Drafts of "The Searchlight" / Jane de Gay 207

Leonard Woolf, Cambridge, and the Art of the English Essay / Wayne K. Chapman 215

Pressing the Public Sphere

Woolf, Privacy, and the Press / Patrick Collier 223

"A Standard of One's Own": Virginia Woolf and the Question of Literary Value / Melba Cuddy-Keane 230

Canonicity and Commercialization in Woolf's Uniform Edition / John Young 236

Moving Images

"Painting the Words": A Version of Lily Briscoe's Paintings from To the Lighthouse / Suzanne Bellamy 244

The Liberation of Lily Briscoe / Isota Tucker Epes 252

"At Gordon Sq. and nowhere else": The Spatial and Social Politics of Bloomsbury / Anna Snaith 256

Tracking Shots Through Film History: Virginia Woolf, Film Archives and Future Technologies / Leslie Kathleen Hankins 266

From Contingency to Essence: Fictions of Identity in Novels and Films / Lesley Higgins, Marie-Christine Leps 276

Envisioning/Revisioning Woolf in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century / Michelle N. Mimlitsch 283

Disciplinary Traversals

Assuming Psyche's Task: Virginia Woolf Responds to James Frazer / Shiela Pardee 291

Virginia Woolf and the "Voyage Out" from Victorian Science / Elyse Myers 298

"The Lighted Strip of History": Virginia Woolf and Einsteinian Simultaneity / Michael Whitworth 304

Visualizing the Spectacle: Woolf's Metahistory Lesson in Between the Acts / Edward Barnaby 311

Women's Learning, Women's Work / Ann Murphy, Jeanne McNett 317

A Woolf with Political Teeth: Classing Virginia Woolf Now and in the Twenty-First Century / Laurie Quinn 325

Conference Program 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0944473512

OCLC:

43561592