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Woolf Studies Annual. Volume Two
In volume 2, Jane Goldman reveals submerged suffrage history in The Waves, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra explains how Roger Fry is an apologia for Bloomsbury, and Janet Winston examines the multiple discourses of imperialism in To the Lighthouse. Karen L. Levenback explores Woolf's embodiment of the postwar experience of combatants in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years, Tracy Seeley finds in a short story Woolf's autobiographical experience of private and public space, and Barbara Apstein traces Woolf's reading of Chaucer in the drafts and published text of Between the Acts. A new "Comment" section includes Jill Morstad's juxtaposition of Woolf's feminist polemics with the politics of examining graduate students, Nicholas Midgley's uncomfortable posing of Woolf's question "why teach English?" and Brenda Silver's thoughts on the movie Tom & Viv. Woolf Studies Annual Volume 2 also includes reviews of several new books on Woolf, Bloomsbury and related matters.

Woolf Studies Annual. Volume Three

The third volume of the Woolf Studies Annual offers Susan Dick's transcription and introduction to "The Cook," a fictionalized portrait of Sophie Farrell, the Stephen's family cook. David Bradshaw's research in the archives of For Intellectual Liberty (FIL) and other artists' organizations for civil liberties in the 1930s reveals that Woolf was perhaps the most politically radical of all her peers. Molly Hoff continues her exploration of the classical matrix of Mrs. Dalloway, Harriet Blodgett argues for a more formalist approach to food as symbol in Woolf's novels, and Jean Long examines Woolf's relations to Charlotte Brontë. Diana Swanson describes the "Antigone complex" in The Years, and Georgia Johnston reassesses issues of class in Between the Acts.
James Haule, a co-compiler of the Complete Concordance to the Novels of Virginia Woolf, offers his suggestions on how such a tool might be used, and the "Guide to Collections" provides up-to-date information on holdings and access requirements for libraries with significant Bloomsbury manuscripts in the U.K., the U.S., and Canada. Vara Neverow and Merry Pawlowski's "Preliminary Bibliographic Guide to the Footnotes of Three Guineas"is a valuable new resource for researchers. There are also reviews of new books by Claire Kahane, Bonnie Kime Scott, Laura Doyle, and others.

Woolf Studies Annual. Volume Four

Included in this volume are both new and established scholars' work: Nancy Knowles on Woolf's "Dome Symbolism"; Jean Kennard on Woolf's changing view of the male homosexual; Karen Kaivola on the question of sexual identity in the relationship between Woolf and Vita Sackville-West; Penny Farfan on Freshwater, Ellen Terry and the art of acting; and Sonya Rudikoff on the friendship between Woolf and the Vaughans.
This volume includes Part Two of David Bradshaw's "British Writers and Antifacism" and Beth Rigel Daugherty's transcription of the Berg manuscript of "How Should One Read a Book?", a talk Woolf gave in 1926 to the girls of Hayes Court School which she continued to revise extensively afterward. Also in this collection are reviews of more than a dozen books relating to Woolf, including new biographies by Hermione Lee and Panthea Reid, Peter Stansky's On or About December 1910, and John Bicknell's two-volume edition of the Letters of Leslie Stephen. The annual feature, The Guide to Special Library Collections, has been updated for 1998.

   * a detailed and up-to date guide to library special collections in the U.S. and England of interest to Woolf scholars.
   * reviews of fifteen new works on Woolf, modernism, fascism, sapphism, Romanticism, essays, bibliography and more.

Here for the first time are published 82 of the letters Woolf received about Three Guineas.  Women and men of different  classes bus conductors, suffrage workers, disgruntled husbands, editors write about what Woolf's words have meant to them, either to praise or to disparage, but all with that passionate engagement characteristic of the prelude to World War II.

Transcribed and annotated by Anna Snaith from the Monks House Papers at Sussex University, these letters afford an unusually frank insight into the contemporary reception of Woolf's pacifist-feminist polemic, and also an unmediated glimpse of the mind of the reading public in England in the late 1930s.

Woolf Studies Annual 7 also includes an up-to-date guide to research collections of interest to Woolf scholars.  Reviews of new books include discussions of Woolf and postmodernism, of gender, of Israeli women s fiction, and of new collections of critical essays intended for students.

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