Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

Helen Wussow is the Dean of Lifelong Learning and Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Professor Mary Ann Gillies teaches in late nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature and Anglo-American modernism at Simon Fraser University.

• Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies • Introduction to Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) ReaderAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsRenée Sarojini Saklikar, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Cecily Nicholson, Jordan Abel • InvocationsNetworks of Affiliation: Foundations and FriendsRosemary Ashton • Education and Empire in Victorian BloomsburyWayne Chapman • Synthesizing Civilizations: Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations, and the Inverse of Imperialism, 1928–1933Jane de Gay • James Stephen’s Anti-Slavery Politics: A Woolfian InheritanceJeanne Dubino • Networks of Empire: Virginia Woolf and the Travel Writing of Emily EdenBeth Rigel Daugherty • Of Scrapbooks, War, and Newspapers: Leslie Stephen’s LegacyCatherine W. Hollis • Leslie Stephen’s Science of (Ecological) EthicsPaul Delany • “The Death of a Beautiful Man’’: Rupert Brooke in Memory and ImaginationLolly Ockerstrom • Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service: ‘‘I had come to dislike imperialism’’Sonita Sarker • Virginia Woolf in the British CommonwealthWoolf and the CommonwealthJane Stafford • “Simplicity and art shades reign supreme”: Costume, Collectibles, and Aspiration in Katherine Mansfield’s New ZealandKathryn Simpson • Wealth in Common: Gifts, Desire, and Colonial Commodities in Woolf and MansfieldMary Ann Gillies • On a View from the Rims: Katherine Mansfield and Emily CarrElizabeth F. Evans • London Calling: Una Marson in the Colonial London SceneElsa Högberg • Modernism Across the Commonwealth: Virginia Woolf’s and Arundhati Roy’s Critique of EmpireMelinda Smith • From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes: An Australian Virginia Woolf1930s OnwardsChristine Froula • War, Peace, Internationalism: Bloomsbury LegaciesIra Nadel • “Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite”: Photography and Trauma in Three GuineasErica Delsandro • “Drawn from Our Island History”: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the Politics of PageantryMartin Winquist • A “Bloodless and Pernicious Pest”: The Middlebrow’s “Common Man” in the Essays of Virginia WoolfLisa Coleman • Woolf’s Troubled and Troubling Relationship to Race: The Long Reach of the White Arm of ImperialismPatrizia Muscogiuri • Woolfian Seamarks: Commodified Women and the Racial Other on the Shores of EmpireVara Neverow • Documenting Fascism in Th ree Guineas and The Handmaid’s Tale: An Examination of Woolf ’s Textual Notes and Scrap Books and Atwood’s “Historical Notes”Kristin Czarnecki • Proportion, Conversion, Transition: War Trauma and Sites of Healing in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Leslie Marmon Silko’s CeremonyWoolf Beyond the BookKaren Levenback • Preserving Our History of Reading Woolf: The Common Wealth of Our Past and FutureDiane F. Gillespie • Adventures in Common: Investing with Woolfs and ‘‘Securitas’’Leslie Kathleen Hankins • Printing ‘‘Prelude’’: Virginia Woolf’s Typsetting Apprenticeship and Katherine Mansfield on ‘‘Other People’s Presses’’Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth, and Claire Battershill • The Hogarth Press, Digital Humanities, and Collaboration: Introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)Paula Maggio • Woolf Blogging, Blogging Woolf: Using the Web to Create a Common Wealth of Global Scholars-ReadersNotes on ContributorsConference Program