Locating Woolf
Virginia Woolf's writing is alert to the politics of space, be it urban, domestic, textual or geopolitical. This is the first book to offer an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Its eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer innovative and interdisciplinary readings on topics such as London's imperial spaces, the spatial formations created by new technology,...
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Virginia Woolf's writing is alert to the politics of space, be it urban, domestic, textual or geopolitical. This is the first book to offer an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Its eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer innovative and interdisciplinary readings on topics such as London's imperial spaces, the spatial formations created by new technology, and the gendering of space.
List of Illustrations viiAcknowledgements viiiNotes on Contributors ixList of Abbreviations xiiIntroduction: Approaches to Space and Place in Woolf Anna Snaith Michael H. Whitworth 1Gendered SpacesFlights of Fancy: Spatial Digression and Storytelling in A Room of One's Own Tracy Seeley 31Women and Interruption in Between the Acts Helen Southworth 46Urban and Rural Spaces'Re-reading Sickert's Interiors': Woolf, English Art and the Representation of Domestic Space Linden Peach 65Representing Nation and Nature: Woolf, Kelly, White Sei Kosugi 81Postcolonial SpacesVirginia Woolf and the Empire Exhibition of 1924: Modernism, Excess, and the Verandahs of Realism Kurt Koenigsberger 99Virginia Woolf and Ireland: The Significance of Patrick in The Years Suzanne Lynch 115New Technologies'Reflections in a Motor Car': Virginia Woolf's Phenomenological Relations of Time and Space Leena Kore Schroder 131Virginia Woolf and the Synapses of Radio Jane Lewty 148Transcultural Spaces'Our Commitments to China': Migration and the Geopolitical Unconscious of The Waves Nobuyoshi Ota 167Orlando and the Tudor Voyages Ian Blyth 183Works Cited 197Index 209
