Woolf Studies Annual: 1996, Volume 2

by Mark Hussey

In this volume of the Woolf Studies Annual, Jane Goldman reveals submerged suffrage history in The Waves, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra explains how Roger Fry is an apologia for Bloomsbury, and Janet Winston examines the multiple discourses of imperialism in To the Lighthouse. Karen L. Levenback explores Woolf's embodiment of the post-war experience of combatants in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years, Tracy Seeley finds in a short story Woolf's autobiographical experience of private and public space, and Barbara Apstein traces Woolf's reading of Chaucer in the drafts and published text of Between the Acts. A new 'Comment' section includes Jill Morstad's juxtaposition of Woolf's feminist polemics with the politics of examining graduate students, Nicholas Midgley's uncomfortable posing of Woolf's question 'why teach English?', and Brenda Silvers' thoughts on the movie Tom & Viv. Woolf Studies Annual, Volume II also includes a revised and up-to-date 'Guide to Collections' and reviews of several new books on Woolf, Bloomsbury, and related matters. 'Purple Buttons on Her Bodice': Feminist History and Iconography in The Waves, Jane Goldman; Virginia Woolf's Roger A Bloomsbury Memorial, Lorrain Janzen Kooistra; 'Something Out of Harmony': To the Lighthouse and the Subject(s) of Empire, Janet Winston; Virginia Woolf and Returning The Great War and Reality of Survival in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years, Karen L. Levenback; Virginia Woolf's Poetics of 'The Lady in the Looking A Reflection', Tracy Seeley; Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, and Between the Acts, Barbara Apstein.; Woolf Whistles, Cat Calls and Other Figures, Jill Morstad; Virginia Woolf and the University, Nicholas Midgley; Tom & Viv & Vita & Virginia & Ottoline & Edith..., Brenda R. Silver; Guide to Library Special Collections; Virginia Woolf and Samuel Common Readers by Beth Carole Rosenberg, Michael Chappell; Woolf and Lessing, Breaking the Mold, eds. Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, J.J. Wilson and Jonah Raskin; Virginia Woolf Against the Empire by Kathy J. Phillips, Masani Usui; So geheim und vertraut [So Secret and Private]: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West by Susanne Amrain, Vera N_nning; Anne Thackeray Journals and Letters, eds. Abigail Burnham Bloom and John Maynard, Jane Fisher; The Art of Dora Carrington by Jane Hill, GeneviSve Sanchis Morgan; Virginia Woolf by James King, Val Gough; Aesthetic From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin by Suzanne Nalbantian, Suzette Henke.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 26, 1996