Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury.
By: edited by Gina Potts and Lisa Shahriari.
Contributors: Potts, Gina, 1973-; Shahriari, Lisa, 1975-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230517660
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Aesthetics; Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Contemporaries; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Bloomsbury group; Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Intellectual life
Description: "The essays in this volume offer new insights on different aspects of Woolf's aesthetics and influences, exploring the relationships between her writing and different creative forms and tracing early influences on her work. The chapters look beyond Woolf to her Bloomsbury contemporaries and others, and even back beyond Bloomsbury"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Contents * List of Abbreviations * Preface * Notes on Contributors * Back to Bloomsbury; title: C.Woolf * The Voyage Back: Woolfs revisions and returns; title: S.Raitt * Young writers might do worse: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Virginia Stephen and Virginia Woolf; B.R.Daugherty * Mapping the Ghostly City: Cambridge, A Room of Ones Own and the University Novel; title: A.Bogen * London Rooms; title: M.Shiach * Leonard and Virginias London Library: Mapping Londons Tides, Streams and Statues; title: E.K.Sparks * Sense of Self and Sense of Place in Orlando: Virginia Woolfs Aesthetics of Pantomime; title: C.Marie * My own ghost met me: Woolfs 1930s photographs, death and Freuds Acropolis; title: M.Humm * Woolf, Fry, and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity; title: B.Harvey * Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature; title: C.Alt * Comparative Modernism: The Bloomsbury Group and the Harlem Renaissance; title: K.Czarnecki * Sketches of Carlyles House by Two Visitors, a Young Virginia Woolf and a Japanese Novelist, Soseki Natsume; title: M.Minow-Pinkney * Bibliography* Index.