Virginia Woolf and the literary marketplace
By: edited by Jeanne Dubino
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780230107069
Subjects: Literature publishing; Knowledge; Book industries and trade; Marketing; Publishers and publishing; Authors and publishers; Authorship; History
Description: These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on new archival material, thic volume makes important new contributions to the study of 'gift economy'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Woolf's engagement with the marketplace: Reading, taking notes, and writing: Virginia Stephen's reviewing practice / Beth Rigel Daugherty; Circulating ideas and selling periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the nation and athenaeum, and topical debate / Elizabeth Dickens; Woolf's editorial self-censorship and risk-taking in Jacob's room / Vara Neverow; Between writing and truth: Woolf's positive nihilism / Jeanette McVicker; title: Part II. Woolf's relationship to the marketplace: How to strike a contemporary: Woolf, Mansfield, and marketing gossip / Katie Macnamara; Something of a firebrand: Virginia Woolf and the literary reputation of Emily Bronte / Heather Bean; Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: commerce, bestsellers, and the Jew / Karen Leick; title: Part III. Woolf's marketplaces: Virginia Woolf and the market of the familiar essay / Caroline Pollentier; Woolf studies and periodical studies / Patrick Collier; The keystone public and Virginia Woolf: A room of one's own, Time and tide, and cultural hierarchies / Melissa Sullivan; Murdering an aunt or two: textual practice and narrative form in Virginia Woolf's metropolitan market / John K. Young; title: Part IV. Marketing Woolf:  The grand lady of literature: Virginia Woolf in Italy under fascism / Elisa Bolchi; Translating Orlando in 1930s Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero / Sara Villa; Appropriating Virginia Woolf for the new humanism: Seward Collins and The Bookman, 1927-1933 / Yuzu Uchida; Don't Judge a cover by its Woolf: book cover images and the marketing of Virginia Woolf's work / Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta.