Virginia Woolf Miscellanies. 
Proceedings of the First Annual Conference 
on Virginia Woolf 

Table of Contents

Introduction
Recollections of the Proceedings
Woolf, Reading and Readers
Beth C. Rosenberg

Virginia Woolf: Conversation and the Common Reader
Alex Zwerdling
The Common Reader, the Coterie and the Audience of One

A Modernist Aberration: Reading Woolf in the Context of Postmodernism
Ann Marie Hebert
"What Does it Mean? How Do You Explain it All?"
Virginia Woolf: A Postmodernist Modernist

Teresa Heffernan
Fascism and Madness: Woolf Writing Against Modernism

Roseanne Hoefel
Preserving a Discourse of Difference and a Difference of Discourse

Woolf, Class and Empire
Kathy J. Phillips
Woolf's Criticism of the British Empire in The Years

Beth Rigel Daugherty
Taking a Leaf from Virginia Woolf's Book: Empowering the Student

Jeanette McVicker
Vast Nests of Chinese Boxes, or Getting from Q to R: Critiquing Empire in "Kew Gardens" and To the Lighthouse

Woolf and Contemporary Writers
Antonia García-Rodríguez
Virginia Woolf from a Latin American Perspective

Deborah Straw
Tea with Virginia: Woolf as an Early Mentor to May Sarton

Carol Ascher
Reading to Write: The Waves as Muse

Jane Lizarre
Structures of Common Experience: Learning from Virginia Woolf

Elegies: Death and Mourning
Christopher Ames Death and Woolf's Festive Vision

Louise Persky
Eternal Renewal: Life and Death in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

A Video Project
Leslie K. Hankins
Virginia Woolf, Literary Tourism and Cultural Site-Seeing

Virginia Woolf and Her Experimentalist Contemporaries: Mansfield, Richardson and Stein
G. Johnston
After the Invention of the Gramophone: Hearing the Woman in Stein's Autobiography and Woolf's Three Guineas

Evelyn Haller
Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, or The Case of the Déclassé Wild Child

"A Rope to Throw the Reader": The Reading of Rhythm in Virginia Woolf
A Discussion moderated by Patricia Laurence with John Briggs; Marilyn Zucker; Elizabeth Cabot; Beth C. Schwartz; Leslie K. Hankins

John Briggs
Nuance, Metaphor and the Rhythm of the Mood Wave in Virginia Woolf

Woolf and War
Andy Delohery and Gail Fay

Intertextualities: Woolf, Dostoevsky, Yourcenar, Weldon
Penny Coulburn-McGuire
Interiors: Woolf and Dostoevsky

Denise Marshall
Dear Reader: Intercepting Romance and Transforming Acculturation in Woolf and Weldon

Judith L. Johnston
"A Necessary Bore" or Brilliant Novelist?: What Yourcenar Understood About Woolf's The Waves

Reading at Random
Catherine Nelson-McDermott
Virginia Woolf and Murasaki Shikibu: A Question of Perception

Lisa Low
Two Figures Standing in Dense Violet Light: John Milton, Virginia Woolf, and the Epic Vision of Marriage

Penny Painter
The Overlooked Influence of John Walker "Jack" Hills on Virginia Woolf

Life/Studies: Psychobiography and Virginia Woolf
Judith Lutzer
Woolf and Freud: An Analysis of Invisible Presences

Jane Lilienfeld
"Like a lion Seeking Whom He Could Devour": Domestic Violence in To the Lighthouse

Louise DeSalvo
Virginia Woolf, Incest Survivor

Roger Poole
A Phenomenological Reading of Certain Photographs

Virginia Woolf Seeking Other Worlds With New Language, Vision and Ritual
Patricia Cramer
Notes from Underground: Lesbian Ritual in the Writings if Virginia Woolf

Merry Pawlowski
Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts; Fascism in the Heart of England

Penelope Cordish
Virginia Woolf's Mountain Top—That Persistent Vision

Time, Embodiment and the Problem Of Separation in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
Amanda Grant
Life Without Boundaries

Kathy Brady
Time, Space and Silence

Hungry To Talk: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching To the Lighthouse
Beth Rigel Daugherty and Mary Beth Pringle, with Marcia McClintock Folsom; Nancy Topping Bazin; Sally Jacobsen: Katherine Hill-Miller; Susan Yunis

"Mrs. Dalloway and The Aeroplane"
By Lisa Peterson with music by David Bucknam

Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Together
Wayne Chapman
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Working Together

Janet M. Manson
Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations Society and the Journal War and Peace

Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Leonard Woolf: The Pivot or Outsider of Bloomsbury?

The Rhetoric of Virginia Woolf's Feminism
Pamela L. Caughie with Anne Callahan
Virginia Woolf and Postmodern Feminism

Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström
Tradition, Resistance and Rewriting in Virginia Woolf's Essays

From Melymbrosia To Between the Acts
Laura Davis-Clapper
Why Did Rachel Vinrace Die? Tracing the Clues from Melymbrosia to The Voyage Out

Elizabeth Heine
New Light in Melymbrosia

G. Patton Wright
Virginia Woolf's Uncommon Reader: Allusions in Between the Acts

Appendix
Program for Virginia Woolf Miscellanies, June 7-9, 1991

Notes on Contributors



 
 
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