Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and Feminist Aesthetics

Amber Jenkins is an independent scholar. She graduated with a PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University, UK in 2019. Since then, she has taught modernist literature at Cardiff, and has continued to publish her research on Virginia Woolf. She has also worked at the University of South Wales, exploring how civic engagement can enhance scholarly practice and promote cultural democracy.

• Part I: Materiality.- 1. Introduction: Writing, Materiality, and Aesthetics.- 2. Conversations in Colour and Ink: Feminist Aesthetics in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ and Kew Gardens.- 3. ‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Developing the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room.- 4. ‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest.- Part II. Aesthetics.- 5. Drafting Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe: Feminist Aesthetics in the Manuscript of To the Lighthouse.- 6. ‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves.- 7. ‘Getting the past to shadow this broken surface’: Time, Materiality, and Aesthetics.