Woolf in the real world
Subtitle: selected papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts,  5-8 June 2003
By: edited by Karen V. Kukil.
Contributors: Kukil, Karen V.
Publisher: Clemson University Digital Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Clemson, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Influence -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Stiff white paper wrappers printed in tan, blue and black and illustrated with a portrait of Woolf by Vanessa Bell.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. The life of Virginia:  Woolf and education / Carol T. Christ ; "This loose, drifting material of life": Virginia Woolf and biography / Lyndall Gordon ; Virginia Woolf's double signature / Catherine W. Hollis ; Virgina Woolf and Vanessa Bell as photographers: "The same pair of eyes, only different spectacles" / Maggie Humm ; "Printing hope": Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirlees, and the iconic imagery of Paris / Julia Briggs ; Virginia Woolf and pacifism / Michèle Barrett ; Woolf and the American imaginary / Cheryl Mares; value: Pt. 2. The writing of Virginia Woolf: The mask/masque of food: illness and art / Susan Rubinow Gorsky ; Woolf's interrogation of class in Night and day / Mary C. Madden ; Darwin's temporal aesthetics: a brief stretch in time from Pater to Woolf / Joseph Kreutziger ; Modernity's shock and beauty: trauma and the vulnerable body in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway / Cornelia Burian ;  Mrs. Dalloway's menopause: encrypting the female life course / Elizabeth Hirsh ; The paradox of the gift: gift giving as a disruptive force in Woolf's writing / Kathryn Simpson ; Ailing dualisms: Woolf's revolt against rationalism in the "real world" of influenza / Lorraine Sim ; Objects dissolving in time / Dianne Hunter ; The political legacy of the garden: (anti)pastoral images and national identity in Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West / McKenzie L. Zeiss ; Writing the land: the geography of national identity in Orlando / Erica L. Johnson ; The guidebook and the dog: Virginia and Italy / Eleanor McNees ; Sex costumes: signifying sex and gender in Woolf's "The introduction" and The years / Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger ; "The works of women are symbolical" / Elizabeth Gallaher von Klemperer; value: Pt. 3. The afterlife of Virginia Woolf: Vanessa Bell's portrait of Virginia Woolf at Smith College / Frances Spalding ; Editing the palimpsestic text: the case of Virginia Woolf's "A sketch of the past" / Elizabeth A. Shih and Susan M. Kenney ; The Paris Press publication of On being ill / Jan Freeman ; The living memes and Jeans of Bloomsbury and Neo-Paganism / William Pryor ; The lightly attached web: the fictional Virginia Woolf / Drew Patrick Shannon ; In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: The hours by Michael Cunningham / Laura Francesca Aimone ; "What are novelists for?": writing and rewriting reality from Woolf to McEwan / Doryjan Birrer ; In search of the self: Virginia Woolf's Shadow across Sylvia Plath's page / Pamela St. Clair ; Filming feminism: A room of one's own on Masterpiece Theater / Kristin Kommers Czarnecki ; Doing the splits: outsider/insider as women's historia and feminist activist / Joyce Avrech Berkman ; Carolyn Heilbrun: the last interview / Susan C. Bourque.