Woolf and the art of exploration
Subtitle: selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 9-12 June 2005
By: edited by Helen Southworth and Elisa Kay Sparks.
Contributors: Southworth, Helen; Sparks, Elisa Kay
Publisher: Clemson University Digital Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Clemson, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Influence -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Stiff white paper wrappers printed in green, blue and black.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Trespassing / Rishona Zimring.  Common ground / Helen Southworth and Elisa Kay Sparks; title: Exploring keynotes: Godiva still rides: Virginia Woolf, divestiture, and Three guineas / Diane F. Gillespie.  Woolf's sense of adventure / Maria DiBattista.  Unseasonable youth, or Woolf's alternative modernity / Jed Esty.  On French and British freedoms: early Bloomsbury and the brothels of modernism / Christine Froula.  Strange necessities / Douglas Mao.  Loves, languages, and lives: an exhibit from the library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf / Trevor James Bond; title: Exploring Woolf's life: Hyde Park Gate news / Gill Lowe.   Autobiographical ruptures: Rhoda's traumatic displacement / Alice D'Amore.  Between the acts: Ottoline Morrell and Mrs. Manresa, D.H. Lawrence and Giles Oliver / Sally A. Jacobsen; title: Exploring subjects and objects/nature: Short change : economies explored in Woolf's short fiction / Kathryn Simpson.  Virginia Woolf and the naturalist novelist / Christina Alt.  The fertile potential of Virginia Woolf's environmental ethic / Kelly Sultzbach.  Reflections on a solitary potato: the new collective essay and the exploring modern "I" / Katie Macnamara; title: Exploring London's spaces: Virginia Woolf and the technologies of exploration: Jacob's room as counter-monument / Robert Reginio.  Terra incognita of the soul: Woolf's challenge to the imperialist's concept of space / Karin de Weille.  The twentieth part: word and image in Woolf's reading room / Benjamin Harvey.  Woolf's exploration of the outer and the inner: a spatial analysis of The years / Elizabeth F. Evans; title: Exploring foreign lands: The English tourist in/on America: Leslie Stephens vs. Virginia Woolf / Eleanor McNees.  The making of Virginia Woolf's America / Cheryl Mares.  Nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring : investigating the relationship between Vita Sackville-West's travel narratives and Woolf's writing / Joyce Kelley.  They came to Baghdad : Woolf and Sackville-West's Levant / Joanna Grant; title: Exploring art and nature: The decline and fall of Rachel Vinrace : Reading Gibbon in Virginia Woolf's The voyage out / Emily O. Wittman.  Hotel narrative and the birth of Virginia Woolf's modernism / Ayako Muneuchi.  Discovering the readerly mind : Woolf's modernist reinvention of the national poet / Mollie Godfrey.  Extinguishing the lady with the lamp : Florence Nightingale and the work of empire in the interludes of The waves / René Dickinson; title: Exploring cultural origins and contexts: Lily the ethnographer: discovering self in To the lighthouse / Meg Albrinck.  The photography of Antarctica: Virginia Woolf's letters of discovery / Alexandra Neel.  Sartorial adventures: Woolf and the (other-) worldliness of dress / Randi Koppen.  A novel is an impression not an argument: Virginia Woolf and James Sully / Akemi Yaguchi.  Exploring the confluence of primitive ritual and modern longing in Between the acts / Stephanie Callan.