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Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter

AvLaci Mattison

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Virginia Woolf’s deep and creative interest in materiality is not only illuminated by but precedes current theorisations of objects, things and matter – among them, new materialism, object-oriented ontology and thing theory. Through both critical and creative engagements, contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of these theoretical accounts: what new readings they afford; what they say that Woolf has already shown us; and how Woolf goes beyond or can’t be fully captured by these ideas. This volume thus gathers various, sometimes even contradictory, approaches on the topic; in turn, it emphasises congruences and tensions in theoretical, literary and cultural interpretations of Woolf’s material investments. What emerges in Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter is an account of how Woolf reveals things to be vital, active and strange by refiguring the relationship between subject and object and, at times, even inverting, subverting or redefining those very terms.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Virginia Woolf – Variations
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399517010

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Laci Mattison is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is a Series Editor for Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism and co-editor of Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism (2014); Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism (2013); and The Routledge Companion to Virginia Woolf (forthcoming 2026).

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This exciting collection constitutes an important landmark in work on Woolf and materiality. Mattison’s innovatively structured volume offers a vivid diversity of viewpoints and approaches, including theoretically focused essays, creative responses and close readings which collectively animate as never before Woolf’s engagement with things, objects and matter.

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List of FiguresNote on the CoverAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, MatterLaci MattisonPart I. Approaches to Objects, Things and Matter in Woolf1. Virginia Woolf and Modernist New MaterialismDerek Ryan2. Jacob’s Im/material FormGeoff Bender3. Inanimacy: Virginia Woolf’s MaterialismsMaurizia Boscagli4. ‘Of being herself invisible’: Object, Thing, Matter and Use in Mrs Dalloway and Three GuineasAnn Martin5. A Toy Boat of Her Own: Gender, Play and Education in Virginia Woolf’s WritingsImola Nagy-Seres6. Cotton, Race, Embodiment and ‘the thing itself’ in WoolfJane Garrity7. Virginia Woolf’s Misuse of ‘Cotton Wool’ in ‘A Sketch of the Past’: Writing the WoundDavi PinhoPart II. Object Experiments with Woolf8. Object LessonsShilo McGiff9. Material Reading: Letterpress Printing with WoolfAne Thon Knutsen10. The Life of Monday or Tuesday Jane Goldman11. More Surfaces: A Monologue, or the Queer Interiorities of a GramophoneJames Brock12. sixErik Fuhrer13. Spider KingdomBrandi GeorgePart III. A Collection of Woolfian Things14. The Jug in the BorderlandDouglas Mao15. ‘Enjoying this Immortal Rhythm’: Woolf and the GramophoneAimée Gasston16. The Ghostly PencilGraham Fraser17. ‘tremb tremulous fitful’: Missed Encounters in MirrorsMelissa Alexander18. The ‘Vanished’ Walrus Pen-Wiper: Waste and the Animal ObjectLaci Mattison19. Pointz Hall as Hyperobject: Woolf’s Deep Geological History in Between the ActsLeanna Lostoski-HoAfterword: Upheavals of MatterBill BrownIndex