Companion to Virginia Woolf

Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), and co-editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2001) and of the Modernist Latitudes book series. She also served as president of the Modernist Studies Association in 2016–17.

"...Berman succeeds in showing the enormous relevance of contemporary approaches to Woolf studies, and of Woolf studies to global and transnational print culture, now and in her own time." - Mary Jean Corbett, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Number 96, Fall 2019-Fall 2020

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Part I Textual Encounters 111 The Lives of Houses: Woolf and Biography 13Alison Booth2 The Short Fiction 27Laura Marcus3 Silence and Cries: The Exotic Soundscape of The Voyage Out 41Emma Sutton4 The Transitory Space of Night and Day 55Elizabeth Outka5 Jacob’s Room: Occasions of War, Representations of History 67Vincent Sherry6 Mrs. Dalloway: Of Clocks and Clouds 79Paul K. Saint-Amour7 A Passage to the Lighthouse 95Maud Ellmann8 Orlando’s Queer Animals 109Derek Ryan9 Global Objects in The Waves 121Jane Garrity10 The Years and Contradictory Time 137Anna Snaith11 Between the Acts: Novels and Other Mass Media 151Marina MacKay12 Flush: A Biography: Speaking, Reading, and Writing with the Companion Species 163Jane Goldman13 Woolf’s Essays, Diaries, and Letters 177Anne E. Fernald14 A Room of One’s Own in the World: The Pre-life and After-life of Shakespeare’s Sister 189Susan Stanford Friedman15 Three Guineas and the Politics of Interruption 203Jessica BermanPart II Approaching Woolf 21716 Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Class 219Jean Mills17 Woolf and the Law 235Ravit Reichman18 Woolf and the Natural Sciences 249Christina Alt19 Digital Woolf 263Mark Hussey20 Woolf and Crip Theory 277Madelyn Detloff21 Woolf and the Visual 291Maggie Humm22 Feminist Woolf 305Pamela L. Caughie23 Ecocritical Woolf 319Bonnie Kime Scott24 Woolf, War, Violence, History, and …Peace 333Sarah Cole25 Queer Woolf 347Melanie MicirPart III Woolf in the World 35926 Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Intimacy 361Jesse Wolfe27 Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and Global Print Culture 377Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth28 Woolf’s Urban Rhythms 397Tamar Katz29 Woolf and Geography 411Andrew Thacker30 Woolf’s Spatial Aesthetics and Postcolonial Critique 427Nels Pearson31 Woolf in Translation 441Geneviève Brassard32 Reading Woolf in India 453Supriya Chaudhuri33 Woolf in Hispanic Countries: Buenos Aires and Madrid 467Laura Ma Lojo-RodríguezIndex 481