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Literary Criticism General

Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

edited by Helen Wussow & Mary Ann Gillies

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780989082679
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $55.00

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Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader presents twenty-eight essays and four poetic invocations delivered at the 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme of the conference, the concept of "common(wealth)," addresses geographical, political, and imaginary spaces in which different readers and readings vie for primacy of place.

The essays in this collection, including keynote addresses by Rosemary Ashton, Paul Delany, Christine Froula, Mary Ann Gillies, Sonita Sarker, and Jane Stafford, reflect upon "common(wealth)" as a constructed entity, one that necessarily embodies tensions between the communal and individual, traditional culture and emergent forms, indigenous people and colonial powers, and literary insiders and outsiders

About the authors

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Mary Ann Gillies is a professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.

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