Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2014
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780989082679
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $55.00
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Description
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
Mary Ann Gillies teaches English at Simon Fraser University and is the author of Henri Bergson and British Modernism. Aurelea Mahood teaches nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature at Capilano College.