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The “Grand Lady of Literature ”: Virginia Woolf in Italy under Fascism
Even though Fascism was a harsh and patriarchal dictatorship notorious for its strong nationalism, raised barriers and censored press, there were forums in Fascist Italy where Italian and foreign literatures c...
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Appropriating Virginia Woolf for the New Humanism: Seward Collins and The Bookman, 1927–1933
Virginia Woolf’s frequent contributions to several American magazines, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, form a side of her writing life influenced by financial concerns, since American magazines paid more ...
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‘The Book is Still Warm’: The Hogarth Press in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Beau Brummell, by Virginia Woolf, published in 1930 by the New York firm of Rimington and Hooper, limited to 550 copies, of which 500 were for sale, had been pulled, at my request, from the bowels of the stacks o...
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Afterlife
Iris Murdoch spent her last days at Vale House in Oxford and died there on 8 February 1999 with her husband at her side. Such was her stature in British letters that the BBC evening news gave her death precede...
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Circulating Ideas and Selling Periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the Nation and Athenaeum, and Topical Debat
Throughout their careers as authors, journalists, and publishers, Virginia and Leonard Woolf wrote and published hundreds of books, reviews, articles, and essays that might be considered polemical, whether the...
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Back to Bloomsbury
Of the one or two questions in life that I prefer to duck, perhaps the most frequent comes from the daunting and amiable creature, the Bloomsbury enthusiast. What was she like? they ask.
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Introduction: The Universe of Hypertext Fiction
This book offers a new critical approach for the analysis of hypertext fiction. The term ‘hypertext’, coined within the work of Nelson (1965, 1970, 1974, 1981), can be most simply defined as ‘non-sequential wr...
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Diversity, Ethnicity, Madness and Fiction
In creating a single chapter on diversity issues in post-1945 literature, we face a number of basic difficulties. There is little consensus on what terms such as ‘diversity’ and ‘ethnicity’ mean. From the poin...
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A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern Economic Polity
Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin, sometime Drapier, has entered history at least in part for his writings about money. He was a man of his time — at least in so far as an understanding of economics ...
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Virginia Woolf and the Middlebrow Market of the Familiar Essay
In “Middlebrow,” Virginia Woolf attacked the category of the “Broadbrow,” defended by J. B. Priestley in a talk on the BBC (Priestley, “High”).1 As Melba Cuddy-Keane has shown, Woolf posited her “democratic highb...
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‘A stiff is still a stiff in this country’: the Problem of Murder in Wartime
My title comes from Margery Allingham’s 1945 novel Coroner’s Pidgin, and its absurd assertion of moral force is indicative of the contradictions pervading popular fiction in wartime. The words are spoken by Mager...
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Communication, Contradictions and World Views in Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story
afternoon: a story, published in 1987 by Eastgate Systems, was one of the first Storyspace hypertexts to emerge. Now, its notoriety extends beyond the field of hypertext studies to the canon of contemporary Ameri...
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Conclusion: Re-presenting Capital in Culture: the Necessary Persistence of Memory in a New Century
In the first decade of the early twenty-first century, and despite the promises of globalisation, ideas about the value of labour, education, race and gender can still be gauged in terms of long-established co...
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Postmodern Madness
The post-war period of postmodernity provided a cultural and social milieu in which to discuss madness through a variety of discourses. Madness appeared, and continues to appear, to extend beyond occasional me...
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Introduction
Postcolonial Studies and Kipling have a curious symbiotic relationship. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), the foundational text in the field, renewed interest in Kipling as a representative Orientalist, who not o...
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Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend
Almost precisely half-way through Charles Dickens’s capacious and last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, the mercenary beauty, Bella Wilfer comes to reflect on the power of the substance she has spent her short ...
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The Skeleton in the Cupboard
At the beginning of World War Two, Daphne du Maurier was called upon, like many other influential authors, to ‘do her bit’ for propaganda, and she responded by writing some edifying stories for various newspap...
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Woolf, Fry and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity
I begin this chapter with two passages from Virginia Woolf’s novels of the 1920s, which both feature characters contemplating the question of painting’s progress and feature a crucial if ambiguous word: ‘solid...
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‘One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare’: the Fascinating Fascist Corpus in Contemporary British Fiction
In the 1970s and 1980s, the often eroticized representation of Nazism in film and literature caused considerable unease amongst critics and intellectuals: what could ‘fascinating fascism’ (as Susan Sontag call...
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Is there a Mary/Shelley in this World? Rewrites and Counterparts in Shelley Jackson’s (1995) Patchwork Girl
Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl; Or, a Modern Monster (1995) is a gothic novel in which the protagonist, the patchwork girl of the title, is a supernatural being comprised of a collection of human body parts don...
