Virginia Woolf and capitalism / edited by Clara Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Clara, editor.

Series:

Virginia Woolf - variations.

Virginia Woolf - variations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views.

Capitalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Virginia Woolf and Capitalism' explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire in Woolf's writing, this collection draws attention to her thinking about history, labour and economics and gives space for understandings of Woolf in the context of our own late-capitalist moment. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars range across Woolf's oeuvre in all its generic diversity, from her earliest short fiction and Night and Day to Three Guineas and Between the Acts, showcasing a range of critical approaches from the archival to the creative to the pedagogical.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Woolf and Capitalism: Introduction

Part I Class, Empire, Capital

1. ‘The eagle claws other peoples land, & goods’: Virginia Woolf on the Desire to Dominate

2. Empire, Slavery and Capitalism

3. ‘my comfortable capitalistic head’: Virginia Woolf on Consumption, Co-operation and Motherhood

4. Biometric Feminism: A Room of One’s Own and the Politics of Intelligence

5. ‘Merchant of this city’: Capitalism and the Liturgies of Peace and War in Jacob’s Room

Part II Labour and the Marketplace

6. Between the Houses: Woolf and the Property Marke

7. Publishing and Capitalism at the Hogarth Press

8. ‘It’s rather distinguished to be as ordinary as I am.’ Woolf’s Working Women Writers

9. The Literary Public Sphere in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

10. Capitalism and Woolf’s Beyond-Work

11. Virginia Woolf: A Sound Investment

Coda: Critical/Creative Responses

12. Scrapbooking the Present Day: The Three Guineas Scrapbooks

13. Work Cut Out

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 31, 2026).

ISBN:

9781399514101

1399514105

OCLC:

1435579392