Virginia Woolf and the Natural World

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Author: Kristin Czarnecki
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0983533903

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World is a compilation of thirty-one essays presented at the twentieth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. This volume explores Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. The diversity of topics within this collection-ecofeminism, the nature of time, the nature of the self, nature and sporting, botany, climate, and landscape, just to name a few-fosters a deeper understanding of the nature of nature in Woolf's works. Contributors include Bonnie Kime Scott, Carrie Rohman, Diana Swanson, Elisa Kay Sparks, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Jane Goldman, and Diane Gillespie, among many others from the international community of Woolf scholars.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Author: Kristin Czarnecki
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 194295414X

Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf’s complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic.

In the Hollow of the Wave

In the Hollow of the Wave
Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813932629

Examining the writings and life of Virginia Woolf, In the Hollow of the Wave looks at how Woolf treated "nature" as a deliberate discourse that shaped her way of thinking about the self and the environment and her strategies for challenging the imbalances of power in her own culture—all of which remain valuable in the framing of our discourse about nature today. Bonnie Kime Scott explores Woolf’s uses of nature, including her satire of scientific professionals and amateurs, her parodies of the imperial conquest of land, her representations of flora and fauna, her application of post-impressionist and modernist modes, her merging of characters with the environment, and her ventures across the species barrier. In shedding light on this discourse of Woolf and the natural world, Scott brings to our attention a critical, neglected, and contested aspect of modernism itself. She relies on feminist, ecofeminist, and postcolonial theory in the process, drawing also on the relatively recent field of animal studies. By focusing on multiple registers of Woolf’s uses of nature, the author paves the way for more extended research in modernist practices, natural history, garden and landscape studies, and lesbian/queer studies.

Virginia Woolf: Writing the World

Virginia Woolf: Writing the World
Author: Pamela L. Caughie
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0990895815

Addresses such themes as the creation of worlds through literary writing, Woolf’s reception as a world writer, world wars and the centenary of the First World War, and natural worlds in Woolf’s writings.

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf
Author: Anne E. Fernald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198811586

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life, her works, her relationships with other writers, her professional career, and themes in her work including among others feminism, sexuality, education, and class.

Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature

Virginia Woolf and the Study of Nature
Author: Christina Alt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139490362

Reflecting the modernist fascination with science, Virginia Woolf's representations of nature are informed by a wide-ranging interest in contemporary developments in the life sciences. Christina Alt analyses Woolf's responses to disciplines ranging from taxonomy and the new biology of the laboratory to ethology and ecology and illustrates how Woolf drew on the methods and objectives of the contemporary life sciences to describe her own literary experiments. Through the examination of Woolf's engagement with shifting approaches to the study of nature, this work covers new ground in Woolf studies and makes an important contribution to the understanding of modernist exchanges between literature and science.

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1
Author: G. Potts
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230251307

This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory

Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Author: Derek Ryan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748676457

Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world
Author: Emma Simone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474421687

Breaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual's relationship to and with the world.