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International Virginia Woolf Society Bibliography of Woolf Studies Published in 2013 Compiled by Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College International Virginia Woolf Society Bibliography of Woolf Studies Published in 2013 Compiled by Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College Please send corrections/additions to Kristin Czarnecki Historian/Bibliographer [email protected] BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Bennett, Maxwell. Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry. New York: Springer, 2013. Bernstein, Susan David. Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Bonikowski, Wyatt. Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. Cordery, Lindsey, et al., eds. Virginia Woolf en América Latina: Reflexiones desde Montevideo. Montevideo: Librería Linardi y Risso, 2013. Cremonesi, Claudia. The Proper Writing of Lives: Biography and the Art of Virginia Woolf. Rome: Aracne editrice, 2013. Czarnecki, Kristin. Unravelling Nurse Lugton’s Curtain: Virginia Woolf, Authorship, and Legacy. Bloomsbury Heritage Series. London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2013. Daniels, Patsy J. Constructing the Literary Self: Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Garrington, Abbie. Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Gazier, Michelle, and Bernard Ciccolini. Virginia Woolf (Spanish Edition). Madrid: Editorial Impedimenta, 2013. Goldman, Jane. Burns Night/Woolf Supper: Birthday Thoughts on Virginia Woolf and Scotland. Fourteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture. London: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2013. ---. With You in the Hebrides”: Virginia Woolf and Scotland. Bloomsbury Heritage Series. London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2013. Gudz, Nataliya. Concepts of Time in Virginia Woolf. Munich: GRIN Verlag, 2013. Hinnov, Emily M., Laurel Harris, and Lauren M. Rosenblum, eds. Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-first-Century Classroom. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Jones, Susan. Literature, Modernism, and Dance. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. Kostkowska, Justyna. Ecocriticism and Women Writers: Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Martin, Ann, and Kathryn Holland, eds. Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-Second Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Clemson: Clemson University Digital Press, 2013. Martin, Kirsty. Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy: Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. McLoughlin, Kate, ed. The Modernist Party. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Miller, Brook. Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Montashery, Iraj. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and the Problematic of Subjectivity. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lap Lambert, 2013. Newman, Hilary. Bella Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Ceylon. Bloomsbury Heritage Series. London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, 2013. Patke, Rajeev S. Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Polaschek, Bronwyn. The Postfeminist Biopic: Narrating the Lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf, and Austen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Putzel, Steven D. Virginia Woolf and the Theater. Hackensack: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013. Ruhl, Sarah. Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Woolf’s Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage. New York: Theater Communications Group, 2013. Ryan, Derek. Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Sotirova, Violeta. Consciousness in Modernist Fiction: A Stylistic Study. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Spiro, Mia. Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2013. Sutton, Emma. Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2013. Tabor, Nicole. Gender, Genre, and the Myth of Human Singularity. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Wilson, Mary. The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. Wood, Alice. Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism: The Genesis of The Years, Three Guineas, and Between the Acts. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Zimring, Rishona. Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. Zoob, Caroline. Virginia Woolf’s Garden. London: Jacqui Small, LLP, 2013. ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, NOTES Alfandary, Isabelle. “Virginia Woolf / Friedrich Nietzsche: life or the Innocence of Becoming in Mrs. Dalloway.” Le Tour critique 2 (2013): 61-72. ---. “Virginia Woolf / Friedrich Nietzsche: la vie ou l’Innocence du Devenir dans Mrs. Dalloway.” La Tour critique 2 (2013): 73-86. Banfield, Ann. “Art as a place (or time) for the delight in what there is.” Le Tour critique 2 (2013): 165-84. ---. “L'art comme lieu (ou temps) pour jouir de ce qu'il y a.” Le Tour critique 2 (2013): 185-208. Barkway, Stephen. “The 2012 Leslie Stephen Lecture: ‘Brotherly Biography: Leslie Stephen and Life-Writing,’ given by Professor Hermione Lee, Monday 19 November 2012 at the Seante House, Cambridge.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 78-80. ---. “Freud’s Eightieth Birthday Committee.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 51. ---. “Note on a Letter from Virginia to Edgar Morrow.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 4-7. ---. “Report of Society Event: Fourteenth Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture: ‘Burns Night/Woolf Supper: Birthday Thoughts on Virginia Woolf and Scotland,” given by Jane Goldman on 26 January 2013 in the Tiffany Room, Tavistock Hotel, Tavistock Square, London WC1.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 81. ---. “Virginia Woolf: Entertaining Essayist.” The Journal of the Alliance of Literary Societies (Humour in Literature issue) 19 (2013): 16-19. ---. “Virginia Woolf Today.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 42 (2013): 37-41. ---. “Virginia Woolf Today.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 52-7. ---. “Virginia Woolf Today.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 44 (2013): 43-49. Barkway, Stephen, and Stuart N. Clarke. “The Genesis of ‘The Shooting Party.’” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 42 (2013): 33-5. Barrett, Michèle. “Virginia Woolf’s Research for Empire and Commerce in Africa (Leonard Woolf, 1920).” Woolf Studies Annual 19 (2013): 83-122. Barrows, Adam. “Chinese Eyes and Muddled Armenians: The Hogarth Press and British Racial Discourse.” Martin and Holland 237-42. Battershill, Claire. “‘No One Wants Biography’: The Hogarth Press Classifies Orlando.” Martin and Holland 243-46. Beasley, Rebecca. “On Not Knowing Russian: The Translations of Virginia Woolf and S. S. Kotelianskii.” Modern Language Review 108.1 (2013): 1-29. Beidler, Philip D. “The Great Party-Crasher: Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the Cultures of World War I Remembrance.” War, Literature, & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 25 (2013): 1-23. Benavídez, Wáshington. “¿Subyace un diario en cada texto?” Cordery et al. 211-18. Blake, Sarah. “Drawing as Thinking: A Visual Response to To the Lighthouse.” Martin and Holland 177-82. Bowlby, Rachel. “An ordinary mind on an ordinary day.” Le Tour critique 2 (2013): 251-62. ---. “Un esprit ordinaire par une journée ordinaire.” Le Tour critique 2 (2013): 263-75. Bowers, Bradley. “The Meanings of Ellipsis.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 83 (2013): 27-29. Bozkurt, Suzan. “The Portuguese Translations of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Their Influence on Contemporary Writers and Critics in Portugal.” Comparative Critical Studies 10.3 (2013): 337-54. Bradshaw, David. “Beneath The Waves: Diffusionism and Cultural Pessimism.” Essays in Criticism 63.3 (2013): 317-43. ---. “Preface.” The ‘Charleston Bulletin’ Supplements. Ed. Claudia Olk. London: The British Library, 2013. vi-ix. Briggs, Marlene A. “Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, and Old Shoes: A Cross-Cultural Iconography of Historical Trauma from the Great War to the Iraq War.” Martin and Holland 50-56. Brown, Christopher. “Mystical Gibberish or Renegade Discourse?: Poetic Language According to Orlando.” Martin and Holland 196-200. Brown, Susan, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. “‘The most unaccountable of machinery’: The Orlando Project produces a textbase of one’s own.” Martin and Holland 207-24. Carter, Candyce Heinsen. “Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press: An Emotional and Professional Enterprise.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 43 (2013): 33-40. Cassigneul, Adèle. “A Far Cry from Within: Virginia Woolf's Poethics of Commitment.” The Age of Outrage, Études Britanniques Contemporaines 45. Ed. Frédérique Amselle. 2013. Web. ---. “Dallying along the way: Virginia Woolf at the crossroads of cinema and literary creation.” Carrefours/Crossroads. Ed. P. Birgy, H. Goethals and W. Harding. Anglophonia 33 (2013): 59-72. Caughie, Pamela. “Dogs and Servants.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 84 (2013): 37-39. ----. “The Temporality of Modernist Life Writing in the Era of Transsexualism: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Einar Wegener’s Man into Woman.” Modern Fiction Studies (2013): 501- 25. Chapman, Wayne. “The Woolfs in Print and Online: A University Press in Transition.” Martin and Holland 269-80. Chesterman, Sylvia. “Virginia in Derbyshire, September 2012.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 42 (2013): 67-77. Clark, Emily. “The Walls are Crumbling Down: Houses as Death Metaphors in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and To the Lighthouse.” Daniels 49-64. Clarke, Stuart N. “A Chronology of Jacob’s Room.” Virginia Woolf Bulletin 42 (2013): 17-18. ---.
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