Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

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.

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Introduction to Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader
pp vii-xii
- By Helen Wussow, Simon Fraser University, Mary Ann Gillies, Simon Fraser University
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Invocations
pp 1-6
- By Renée Sarojini Saklikar, none, Fiona Tinwei Lam, none, Cecily Nicholson, none, Jordan Abel, none
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Education and Empire in Victorian Bloomsbury
pp 8-17
- By Rosemary Ashton, University College
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Synthesizing Civilizations: Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations, and the Inverse of Imperialism, 1928–1933
pp 18-26
- By Wayne K. Chapman, Clemson University
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James Stephen's Anti-Slavery Politics: A Woolfian Inheritance
pp 27-32
- By Jane de Gay, Trinity University
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Networks of Empire: Virginia Woolf and the Travel Writing of Emily Eden
pp 33-38
- By Jeanne Dubino, University in Boone
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Of Scrapbooks, War, and Newspapers: Leslie Stephen's Legacy
pp 39-44
- By Beth Rigel Daugherty, Rice University
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Leslie Stephen's Science of (Ecological) Ethics
pp 45-49
- By Catherine W. Hollis, University of California
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“The Death of a Beautiful Man”: Rupert Brooke in Memory and Imagination
pp 50-58
- By Paul Delany, Simon Fraser University
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Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service: “I had come to dislike imperialism”
pp 59-64
- By Lolly Ockerstrom, Park University
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Virginia Woolf in the British Commonwealth
pp 65-76
- By Sonita Sarker, Macalester College
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“Simplicity and art shades reign supreme”: Costume, Collectibles, and Aspiration in Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand
pp 78-87
- By Jane Stafford, University of Wellington
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Wealth in Common: Gifts, Desire, and Colonial Commodities in Woolf and Mansfield
pp 88-93
- By Kathryn Simpson, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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On a View from the Rims: Katherine Mansfield and Emily Carr
pp 94-106
- By Mary Ann Gillies, Simon Fraser University
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London Calling: Una Marson in the Colonial London Scene
pp 107-114
- By Elizabeth F. Evans, University of Notre Dame
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Modernism Across the Commonwealth: Virginia Woolf's and Arundhati Roy's Critique of Empire
pp 115-120
- By Elsa Högberg, Uppsala University
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From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes: An Australian Virginia Woolf
pp 121-126
- By Melinda Smith, University of Oregon
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War, Peace, Internationalism: Bloomsbury Legacies
pp 128-144
- By Christine Froula, Northwestern University
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“Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite”: Photography and Trauma in Three Guineas
pp 145-150
- By Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia
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“Drawn from Our Island History”: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the Politics of Pageantry
pp 151-158
- By Erica Delsandro, Washington University
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A ”Bloodless and Pernicious Pest”: The Middlebrow's “Common Man” in the Essays of Virginia Woolf
pp 159-164
- By Martin Winquist, University of Saskatchewan
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Woolf's Troubled and Troubling Relationship to Race: The Long Reach of the White Arm of Imperialism
pp 165-172
- By Lisa Coleman, Oklahoma State University
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Woolfian Seamarks: Commodified Women and the Racial Other on the Shores of Empire
pp 173-182
- By Patrizia A. Muscogiuri, University of Salford
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