Virginia Woolf and Heritage

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This volume aims to situate Virginia Woolf as a writer who, despite her fame as a leading modernist, also drew on a rich literary and cultural heritage. The chapters in this volume explore the role her family heritage, literary tradition and heritage locations play in Woolf' s works, uncovering the influence the past had on her work, and particularly her deep indebtedness to the Victorian period in the process. It looks at how she reimagined heritage, including her queer readings of the past. This volume also aims to examine Woolf' s own literary legacy: with essays examining her reception in Romania, Poland and France and her impact on contemporary writers like Alice Munro and Lidia Yuknavitch. Lastly, Woolf' s standing in the increasingly popular field of biofiction is explored. The collection features an extended chapter on Virginia Woolf' s relationship with her cousin H.A.L. Fisher by David Bradshaw, and an extended chapter by Laura Marcus on Woolf and the concept of shame. Cover Table of Contents Jane de Gay, Anne Reus, and Tom Breckin – Introduction List of Abbreviations Heritage: A Debate “Her—it—age!”: Virginia Woolf and Syllabic Intervention—Or, “Heritage is a Kim Novak word” Heritage, Education, and Mentoring “The Very Centre of the Very Centre”: H. A. L. Fisher, Oxford, and “That Great Patriarchal Machine” Virginia Stephen’s Uneasy Heritage: Lessons, Readers, and Class Teaching Virginia Woolf in Sin City: Vegas Entertainers and a New Feminist Heritage Out-takes from Upstarts: Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison,and the Heritage of Dissent,or, “There She Wasn’t?” Virginia Woolf’s Female Heritage: The Legacy of Anny Thackeray Ritchie, Woolf’s “Transparent Medium” Heritage Spaces Virginia Woolf and the Artistic Heritage of St. Ives “The little bit of power I had myself”: Lady Lasswade’s Shifting Sense of Place in The Years Through the Arch: The Country House and the Tradition of English Tyranny in Woolf’s Between the Acts Heritage Hoarding: Artifacts, Archives, and Ambiguity, or, the Saga of Virginia Woolf’s Standing Desk “Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”: Vanessa Bell’s Death of the Moth Dust Jacket as Monument to Virginia Woolf Literary and Cultural Heritages Virginia Woolf in Greece:“Curious contrasts!”: Hellenism and Englishness Whose Idea of Tragedy? Mrs Dalloway and the Ancient Greek Tradition Silence, Darkness, and Dirt: Mysticism and Materiality in The Years and Between the Acts Virginia Woolf Reads the Romantics A Critical Heritage: Virginia Woolf, Leslie Stephen, and Walter Scott “Where Childhood’s dreams are twined”: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Heritage of Lewis Carroll Queer Pasts Sex and Literary History in Orlando Queer Elizabeth: Early/Modern Feeling in Orlando and Elizabeth and Essex Persuading Rachel: Woolf and Austen’s “little voyage of discovery” “The world…seen from this angle undoubtedly looks queer”: History, Heritage, and the Queer Domesticity of Between the Acts Modernism and Heritage Resetting the Type: An Exploration of the Historical Sense in Mrs. Dalloway Kenya Colony and the Kenya Novel: The East African Heritage of “A Very Fine Negress” in A Room of One’s Own Leonard Woolf’s Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo: Satirical Heritage as Apocalyptic Prophecy Virginia Woolf and the War on Books: Cultural Heritage and Dis-Heritage in the 1930s Gender Roles and the War Machine: An Undergraduate Roundtable on Virginia Woolf’s Legacies Writing Lives and Histories The Play of Fact and Fiction in Virginia Stephen’s “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn” “Writing the history of my own times”: Virginia Woolf and the Diary Heritage, Legacy, and the Life-Writing of Woolf and Rhys Life as Legacy: Truth, Fiction, and Fidelity of Representation in Biographical Novels Featuring Virginia Woolf From the Author to the Icon: A Heritage of Virginia Woolf in French Biographies and Biofictions Flights of Archival Imagination: Woolf’s Transcendent Materiality in Contemporary “Archive Fiction” Woolf's Legacies “A shadow crossed the tail of his eye”: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania: Heritage Transformed Woolf’s Imaginarium: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Legacy to Contemporary Polish Culture An Office of Her Own? Alice Munro and the Legacy of Writing with In-Authority Thinking Back through Virginia Woolf: Woolf as Portal in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children The Malicious Gene: An Evolutionary Games Strategy? Woolf’s Hawkish Inheritance Finale “Some ancestral dread: ”Woolf, Autobiography, and the Question of “Shame” Notes on Contributors