The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once fresh and thoroughly grounded in prior scholarship. Six sections focus on Woolf's life, her texts, her experiments, her life as a professional, her contexts, and her afterlife. Opening chapters on Woolf's life address the powerful influences of family, friends, and home. The section on her works moves chronologically, emphasizing Woolf's practice of writing essays and reviews alongside her fiction. Chapters on Woolf's experimentalism pay special attention to the literariness of Woolf's writing, with opportunity to trace its distinctive watermark while 'Professions of Writing', invites readers to consider how Woolf worked in cultural fields including and extending beyond the
Hogarth Press and the TLS. The 'Contexts' section moves beyond writing to depict her engagement with the natural world as well as the political, artistic, and popular culture of her time. The final section on afterlives demonstrates the many ways Woolf's reputation continues to grow, across the globe, and across media, in ideas and in artistic expression. Of particular note, chapters explore three distinct Woolfian traditions in fiction: the novel of manners, magical realism, and the feminist novel.


Author: Anne E. Fernald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.93lbs
Size: 9.99h x 7.06w x 1.76d
ISBN: 9780198811589


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2022

About the Author

Anne E. Fernald, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University

Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) and the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism/modernity and one of the editors
of The Norton Reader, a widely-used anthology of essays. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism.