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Nora and Marthe
The first two chapters of this study—focusing on Nora Barnacle and Marthe Fleischmann, and Katharine and Charles Stewart Parnell—will provide openings, however brief, into crucial moments and key players for J...
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Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Commerce, Bestsellers, and the Jew
As a result of Edith Sitwell’s encouragement and enthusiasm, Gertrude Stein agreed to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford in June 1926. In the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, her delivery of “Composition as Explana...
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The “Keystone Public” and Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Time and Tide, and Cultural Hierarchies
On 23 October 1929, the eve of its publication, Virginia Woolf voiced concern over the reception of A Room of One’s Own. In her diary she worried that there was “a shrill feminine tone in it which [her] intimate ...
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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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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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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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Woolf Studies and Periodical Studies
How should one read a periodical? And, more to the point of this volume, how, and why, should one read Virginia Woolf in a periodical? I start by revising Woolf’s titular question “How Should One Read a Book?” fo...
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“Murdering an Aunt or Two”: Textual Practice and Narrative Form in Virginia Woolf’s Metropolitan Market
As evidence for the multiple connections between the commercial and intellectual freedoms provided by the Hogarth Press for its co-owner and leading author, consider a diary entry from September 1925: ...
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Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero
The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the prestigious Medusa collection, a series aimed at presenting “the great novelists of every count...
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Don’t Judge a Cover by Its Woolf: Book Cover Images and the Marketing of Virginia Woolf’s Work
We all judge books by their covers. Browsing in unfamiliar stacks, we are attracted to a book by a name, title, aesthetic, or familiar image on its cover. When we encounter books we already know or have read, ...
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Beyond the Margins of Marriage in Exiles and Giacomo Joyce
The story of the Parnells casts the adulterous liaison as a site where the two understand the alterity of the other: “a relationship,” Levinas writes, “whose positivity comes from remoteness, from separation, ...
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Reading, Taking Notes, and Writing: Virginia Stephen’s Reviewing Practice
When Virginia Woolf published her 1939 essay “Reviewing,” it pro-voked immediate disagreement. Leonard Woolf questioned her argument in a note appended to the Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlet (#4) and included himsel...
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Part II: Ulysses and Adultery: Homecoming
Ulysses is an attempt to create an ethics of love. In the shift from exploring the adulterous pursuits of a dissatisfied husband who feels his own desire constrained—the project of Exiles and Giacomo Joyce, remna...
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Woolf’s Editorial Self-Censorship and Risk-Taking in Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf was very cautious about what she said in print. Under the auspices of the Hogarth Press, the publishing venture she co-owned for many years, Woolf evaded direct editorial interference, enjoying ...
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How to Strike a Contemporary: Woolf, Mansfield, and Marketing Gossip
Most scholars writing about Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” (1918) over the past forty years have cited at least one of two reactions Virginia Woolf semi-privately penned1 to the story at some point in their analys...
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Introduction: Joyce’s Sexual/Textual Ethics
In a 1904 letter to the girl who would become his lifelong companion—much of that life spent together unmarried—James Joyce writes, “No human being has ever stood so close to my soul as you stand … I honour yo...
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Katharine and Parnell
It was an adulterous queen who betrayed Ireland. In the notes for his play Exiles, Joyce writes:
The relations between Mrs. O’Shea and Parnell are not of vital significance for Ireland—first, becau...
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Introduction
Over the course of her career, starting with “The Decay of Essay-writing” and concluding with “Reviewing,” Virginia Woolf wrote about the literary marketplace. In her diaries and letters, in her fiction and ex...
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Part I: Ulysses and Adultery: Wandering
While others might not imagine this to be the most important thing about Ulysses, for me it is the crux of the novel: what would compel a man to facilitate his wife’s affair? I claim that Bloom does so as a recog...
