Virginia Woolf and the Natural World ( Clemson University Press: Woolf Selected Papers )

Publication series ：Clemson University Press: Woolf Selected Papers

Author： Czarnecki   Kristin   Rohman   Carrie  

Publisher： Liverpool University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781942954149

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780983533900

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Virginia Woolf and the Natural World is a compilation of thirty-one essays presented at the twentieth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. This volume explores Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. The diversity of topics within this collection—ecofeminism, the nature of time, the nature of the self, nature and sporting, botany, climate, and landscape, just to name a few—fosters a deeper understanding of the nature of nature in Woolf's works. Contributors include Bonnie Kime Scott, Carrie Rohman, Diana Swanson, Elisa Kay Sparks, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Jane Goldman, and Diane Gillespie, among many others from the international community of Woolf scholars. Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf’s complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. Impressive line up of international contributors. Brings together the best of contemporary Woolf scholarship.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf

“We Make Life”: Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves

“The Real World”: Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism

Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them

“Everything tended to set itself in a garden”: Virginia Woolf’s Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach

Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf

The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf’s “Seven-Sided Flower” and Henri Bergson’s Intuition

Crowding Clarissa’s Garden

The Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew

The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather’s One of Ours

Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing

“This, I fancy, must be the sea”: Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf ’s Writing

Wild Swimming

The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob’s Room and Orlando

The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One’s Own in Nature and Art

“The Bird is the Word”: Virginia Woolf and W.H. Hudson, Visionary Ornithologist

Evolution, History, and Flush; or, The Origin of Spaniels

“Lappin and Lapinova”: A Woolf in Hare’s Clothing?

“A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage”: Dining Well in Virginia Woolf ’s Life and Work

Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway

Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905

“Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate”: Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes

Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through Nature

Virginia Woolf as Mountaineer

“It was an uncertain spring”: Reading Weather in The Years

Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy

“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us”: Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf

Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf ’s Narration

“To give the moment whole”: The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm)unity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Spengler’s The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W.B Yeats

Listening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf’s Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s

Notes on Contributors

Conference Program

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