Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), guest editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 50 (1997) and co-editor, with Beth C. Rosenberg, of Virginia Woolf and the Essay (St. Martin’s Press, 1997). Paulina Pająk, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław (ORCID: 0000-0001-6911-1284). She is a principal investigator on the research project Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist publishing networks and the Bloomsbury Group in interwar Poland (SONATA no. 2023/51/D/HS2/02041), funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. Her research and publications focus on modernist literature and legacies, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, interwar print culture and publishing networks. Catherine W. Hollis teaches writing in University of California Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshmen. She has also worked as an assistant editor for the Emma Goldman Papers Project. She is the author of Leslie Stephen as Mountaineer (Cecil Woolf, 2010) as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and modernist women’s communities. Celiese Lypka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature at University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Her publications include ‘Virginia Woolf: Mobilizing Emotion, Feeling, and Affect.’ Spec Iss of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 97 and Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Vara Neverow is a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (Harcourt, 2008) and, with Mark Hussey, of Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives (Pace University Press, 1994), Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations (Pace University Press, 1993) and Virginia Woolf Miscellanies (Pace University Press, 1992).

This collection is just what we need – a reminder of how Woolf’s work circulates world-wide and the enormous impact it continues to have. From nearly all regions of the world, its contributors consider questions of translation, reception, and influence from delightfully wide-ranging perspectives while the editors place Woolf firmly in our ongoing conversations about location, globalisation and planetarity.

• List of contributorsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf1. ‘What a curse these translators are!’ Woolf’s early German reception - Daniel Göske and Christian Weiß 2. The translation and reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926–89) - Adriana Varga3. The reception of Virginia Woolf and modernism in early twentieth-century Australia - Suzanne Bellamy4. Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo channels Virginia Woolf - Cristina Carluccio5. From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible conversations with Virginia Woolf - Davi Pinho6. Three Guineas and the Cassandra project – Christa Wolf’s reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War - Henrike Krause7. Virginia Woolf’s literary heritage in Russian translations and interpretations - Maria Bent8. Virginia Woolf’s feminist writing in Estonian translation culture - Raili Marling9. Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A feminist paratextual reading of translation strategies - Hala Kamal10. OPEN ACCESS Solid and living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance - Elisa Bolchi11. Tracing A Room of One’s Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929–2019 - Jeanne DubinoPart II. Woolf’s Legacies in Literature12. Virginia Woolf’s enduring presence in Uruguay - Lindsey Cordery13. Virginia Woolf’s reception and impact on Brazilian Women’s literature - Maria A. de Oliveira14. English and Mexican dogs: Spectres of traumatic pasts in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and María Luisa Puga’s Las razones del lago - Lourdes Parra-Lazcano15. A new perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto’s novels and A Room of One’s Own - Hogara Matsumoto16. A Room of One’s Own: A cross-cultural voyage between Virginia Woolf and the contemporary Chinese woman writer Chen Ran’ - Zhongfeng Huang17. In search of spaces of their own: Woolf, feminism and women’s poetry from China - Justyna Jaguścik18. Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s feminist legacy to contemporary Polish literature - Paulina Pająk19. Clarissa Dalloway’s global itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney’ - Monica Latham20. Virginia Woolf and French writers: Contemporaneity, idolisation, iconisation - Anne-Laure Rigeade21. The dream work of a nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin - Pat Laurence22. Great poets do not die: Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as metaphor for contemporary biofiction - Bethany Layne23. The Woolf girl: A mother-daughter story with Lidia Yuknavitch and Virginia Woolf - Catherine W. HollisIndex