Synopses & Reviews
This volume collects essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars from around the world, focusing on Virginia Woolf's and Bloomsbury's politics. Themes include war, freedom of the press, economics and cultural production, the Hogarth Press, the global circulation of ideas, and transformations to the public sphere.
About the Author
GINA POTTS is a Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
LISA SHAHRIARI received her PhD in Literature from the University of Essex, UK.
Table of Contents
Contents * Preface * List of abbreviations * Notes on contributors * Woolf in wartime, and Townsend Warner too;
G.Beer * Virginia Woolf, 'Patriotism', and 'our prostituted fact-purveyors';
J.Allen * Woolf's Politic Aesthetic in 'To Spain',
Three Guineas,
and
Between the Acts;
M.Payne* Who let the dogs out? Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Virginia Woolf, and the Little Brown Dog; J.Goldman * Virginia Woolf as Policy Analyst; C.D.Goodwin * Unpinning Economies of Desire: Gifts and the Market in 'Moments of Being: "Slater's Pins Have No Points"'; K.Simpson * How Should One Sell a Book? Production Methods, Material Objects, and Marketing at the Hogarth Press; E.W.Gordon * 'The Book is Still Warm': The Hogarth Press in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; D.P.Shannon * Conversations in Bloomsbury: Colonial Writers and the Hogarth Press; A.Snaith * World Modeling: Paradigms of Global Consciousness in and around Virginia Woolf; M.Cuddy-Keane * Small Talk/New Networks: Virginia Woolf's Virtual Publics; B.R.Silver
* Bibliography * Index