Virginia woolf-objects, things, matter / edited by Laci Mattison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattison, Laci, editor.

Series:

Virginia Woolf--variations.

Virginia Woolf-Variations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Woolf, Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

The first book-length account of Woolf's vital, active and strange objects, things and matter.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Note on the Cover

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Virginia Woolf - Objects, Things, Matter

PART I: APPROACHES TO OBJECTS, THINGS AND MATTER IN WOOLF

1. Virginia Woolf and Modernist New Materialism

2. Jacob's Im/material Form

3. Inanimacy: Virginia Woolf's Materialisms

4. 'Of being herself invisible': Object, Thing, Matter and Use in Mrs Dalloway and Three Guineas

5. A Toy Boat of Her Own: Gender, Play and Education in Virginia Woolf's Writings

6. Cotton, Race, Embodiment and 'the thing itself' in Woolf

7. Virginia Woolf's Misuse of 'Cotton Wool' in 'A Sketch of the Past': Writing the Wound

PART II: OBJECT EXPERIMENTS WITH WOOLF

8. Object Lessons

9. Material Reading: Letterpress Printing with Woolf

10. The Life of Monday or Tuesday

11. More Surfaces: A Monologue, or the Queer Interiorities of a Gramophone

12. six

13. Spider Kingdom

PART III: A COLLECTION OF WOOLFIAN THINGS

14. The Jug in the Borderland

15. 'Enjoying this immortal rhythm': Woolf and the Gramophone

16. The Ghostly Pencil

17. 'tremb tremulous fitful': Missed Encounters in Mirrors

18. The 'Vanished' Walrus Pen-Wiper: Waste and the Animal Object

19. Pointz Hall as Hyperobject: Woolf's Deep Geological History in Between the Acts

Afterword: Upheavals of Matter

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-3995-1702-3

OCLC:

1515461061