Virginia Woolf out of bounds : selected papers from the Tenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Maryland Baltimore County, June 7-10, 2000 / edited by Jessica Berman and Jane Goldman.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Berman, Jessica Schiff, 1961-

Goldman, Jane, 1960-

Conference Name:

Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (10th : 2000 : University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Criticism and interpretation.

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

Women and literature.

History.

England.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pace University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Papers from the inaugural Woolf conference of the millennium address the future of Woolf study, especially as an opportunity for new intellectual exchanges and mixtures. Among the over forty contributions are several focusing on teaching _A Room of One's Own_.

Contents:

Introduction: Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds / Jessica Berman, Jane Goldman 1

Gender, Sexuality, Feminism

Gunpowder Plots: Sexuality and Censorship in Woolf's Later Works / Patricia Moran 6

Prostituting Culture and Enslaving Intellectual Liberty: Virginia Woolf's Disavowed Victorian Predecessor Margaret Oliphant / Emily Blair 13

Novel Possibilities: Re-Reading Sexuality and "Madness" in Mrs. Dalloway, Beyond the Film / Jamie Carr 19

Sleeping Beauty in a Green Dress: Mrs. Dalloway and Fairy Tale Configurations of Desire / Ann Martin 25

"...though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it": Staging Gender in Woolf's Orlando / Jane De Gay 31

The Science of Sex and the Art of Self-Materializing in Orlando / Lisa Carstens 39

With Clear-Eyed Scrutiny: The Narrator as Sister in Jacob's Room / Diana L. Swanson 46

Archives and Readers

From Frass to Foucault: Mediations of the Archive / Edward L. Bishop 52

Brow-Beating, Wool-Gathering, and the Brain of the Common Reader / Melba Cuddy-Keane 58

Woolf and Other Writers

Dissolving Stereotypical Cultural Boundaries: Allusions to Virginia Woolf in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister of My Heart / Nancy Knowles 67

A. S. Byatt and "(V. Woolf)": Mapping a Misreading of Modernism / Karin Westman 73

"It won't be fine" tomorrow: Doris Lessing's Struggle with Woolf / Debrah Raschke 79

Chasing the Wild Goose: Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Angela Carter's The Passion of the New Eve / Kathryn S. Laing 86

"Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You": Alice Munro as Unlikely Heir to Virginia Woolf / Jane Lilienfeld 92

Orientalism/Colonialism

"Accidents of Political Life": Satire and Edwardian Anti-Colonial Politics in The Voyage Out / Chene Heady 97

Virginia Woolf and British "Orientalism" / Steven Putzel 105

Woolf in Blackface: Identification across The Waves / Genevieve Abravanel 113

Philosophical Approaches: Politics, Phenomenology, Ethics, Physics

Reason and Truth in A Room of One's Own / Michele Barrett 120

The Body Unbound: A Phenomenological Reading of the Political in A Room of One's Own / Laura Doyle 129

"The Outside of Its Inside and the Inside of Its Outside": Phenomenology in To the Lighthouse / Justine Dymond 140

Talking with the Other; or, Wireless Ethics: Levinas, Woolf and the BBC / Todd Avery 145

Porous Objects: Self, Community, and the Nature of Matter / Michael Whitworth 151

Reading and Teaching A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf://Hypertext / Brenda R. Silver 157

She speaks to me: Virginia Woolf in the Community College Classroom / Lois J. Gilmore 165

Teaching A Room of One's Own in the New Millennium: The War Continues / Karen L. Levenback 170

Opening Doors to A Room of One's Own / Katie Marts 176

"I'm Not a Feminist or Anything, But...": Teaching A Room of One's Own in High School / Nancy S. Shay 180

Woolf Through Other Arts

Experiments in Constructing the Visual Field: Conversations with Woolf and Stein and Painting The Waves / Suzanne Bellamy 186

A Lifetime with The Waves / Isota Tucker Epes 192

Cultural and Material Woolf

Photoportraits: Gisele Freund and Virginia Woolf / Nicola Luckhurst 197

Matrixial Memories in Virginia Woolf's Photographs / Maggie Humm 206

Woolf, Picture Postcards, Modernity / Mark Wollaeger 213

Frock Consciousness, Self-Fashioning: Virginia Woolf's Dialectical Materialism / Jennifer Wicke 221

"The shop windows were full of sparkling chains": Consumer Desire and Woolf's Night and Day / Elizabeth Outka 229

Intertexts and Contexts

"The Lady's Gone A-Roving": Woolf and the English Folk Revival / Vanessa Manhire 236

"All was dark; all was doubt; all was confusion": Nature, Culture, and Orlando's Ruskinian Storm-Cloud / Caroline Webb 243

"Whose shape is that within the car? & why?": Mrs. Dalloway and "The Triumph of Life" / David Vallins 249

"Because It Is There": George Mallory's Presence in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse / Donald Blume 258

Woolf's Russia: Out of Bounds / Marilyn Schwinn Smith 265

"The Rain in Spain": Woolf, Cervantes, Andalusia, and The Waves / Diane F. Gillespie 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0944473555

OCLC:

46791083