The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts Maggie Humm April 2010 Hb 978 0 7486 3552 8 £125.00 440pp 244 x 172 mm 39 b&w illustations 16 colour illustrations The most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations 'This book appears at a time when scholarly interest has travelled far down the many The Author tributaries connecting Virginia Woolf to the cultural moment in which she lived and worked. No previous book, however, has attempted an overview of the significance of Maggie Humm is a Professor of the arts to Woolf. Hence the need for this all encompassing endeavour. Its breadth of Cultural Studies in the School of interest catches many topics, from gardens to the aesthetics of the city, from scrapbooks Humanities and Social Science at and journalism to dance, music, film, photography and the theatre. It is rich in overlap the University of East London. She is and fertile creative tensions. Its catholicity also embraces differing levels of debate and the author of many books including a range of methodologies. In some areas it summarises existing knowledge, in others it Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private sets up new avenues of enquiry. But, as a whole, this is a richly variegated assortment of Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell essays. It will, for a long time, remain a most useful compendium.' – Frances Spalding, (Tate Publishing & Rutgers University art historian, critic and biographer Press, 2006) and Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema Description (Edinburgh University Press & Rutgers Original, extensive and fully up-to-date with the latest research, The Edinburgh University Press 2002). Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts explores Virginia Woolf's ideas about creativity and the nature of art. It places these ideas in their cultural and historical Readership contexts, and in the context of the recent 'turn to the visual' in modernist studies, with its focus on visual technologies and the significance of material production. Upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics with The newly researched chapters, written by internationally recognised authors, interests in Virginia Woolf, Modernism, place Woolf's work in relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Literary and practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, painting (including the Artistic Culture work of Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell), art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden design, book design, broadcasting, film and technology. No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms. Literary Studies 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts Maggie Humm Key Features Contributors • Newly commissioned research from expert contributors Tony Bradshaw • Edited by Maggie Humm, widely known for her important work on Virginia Liz and Peter Brooker Woolf and visual culture Pamela L. Caughie • Exceptional coverage of domestic and public art forms Patrick Collier • Illustrated with both colour and black and white images Colin Dickey • Sets Woolf's work in its historical, cultural and artistic contexts Kate Flint Jane Garrity Selling Points Maggie Humm Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina • A library 'must buy' given Virgina Woolf's cultural significance Diane F. Gillespie • Beautifully designed, high quality production – a collector's item Jane Goldman Evelyn Haller Table of Contents Nuala Hancock Leslie K. Hankins Cited editions of Virginia Woolf and Abbreviations Benjamin Harvey List of Figures Elizabeth Hirsh List of Plates Joyce E. Kelley Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Maggie Humm Laura Marcus Part 1: Aesthetics Vara S. Neverow 1. Virginia Woolf and Victorian Aesthetics, Kate Flint Merry M. Pawlowski 2. Virginia Woolf and Modernist Aesthetics, Jane Goldman Linden Peach 3. Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, Anthony Uhlmann Makiko Minow-Pinkney Aesthetics Steven Putzel 4. Virginia Woolf: Performing Race, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Victoria Rosner 5. Virginia Woolf and City Aesthetics, Vara S. Neverow Brenda R. Silver 6. Virginia Woolf and Realist Aesthetics, Linden Peach Anthony Uhlmann Part 2: Paintings 7. Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Painting, Diane F. Gillespie 8. Virginia Woolf, Art Galleries and Museums, Benjamin Harvey 9. Virginia Woolf and Portraiture, Elizabeth Hirsh Part 3: Domestic Arts 10. Virginia Woolf and Monks House, Victoria Rosner 11. Virginia Woolf and Fashion, Jane Garrity 12. Virginia Woolf and Bohemian Lifestyles, Liz and Peter Brooker 13. Virginia Woolf and Entertaining, Makiko Minow-Pinkney 14. Virginia Woolf and Gardens, Nuala Hancock Part 4: Publishing, Broadcasting & Technology 15. Virginia Woolf as Publisher and Editor: The Hogarth Press, Laura Marcus 16. Virginia Woolf and Book Design, Tony Bradshaw 17. Virginia Woolf and Scrapbooking, Merry M. Pawlowski; 18. Virginia Woolf and the Art of Journalism, Patrick Collier 19. Virginia Woolf, Radio, Gramophone, Broadcasting, Pamela L. Caughie Part 5: Visual Media 20. Virginia Woolf and Film, Leslie K. Hankins 21. Virginia Woolf and Photography, Colin Dickey;22. Virginia Woolf Icon, Brenda R. Silver Literary Studies Part 6: Performance Arts 22 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LF 23. Virginia Woolf and Music, Joyce E. Kelley tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 24. Virginia Woolf and Theatre, Steven Putzel 25. Virginia Woolf and Dance, Evelyn Haller fax: +44 (0)131 662 0053 Notes on Contributors [email protected] Index. www.euppublishing.com The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts Maggie Humm Notes on Contributors Tony Bradshaw is the owner of The Bloomsbury Workshop in London which, through its exhibitions over the years, has explored many aspects of Bloomsbury art. He is the author of The Bloomsbury Artists: Prints and Book Design, a comprehensive catalogue of work done in this field, and has editedA Bloomsbury Canvas, a well-acclaimed collection of essays covering a number of aspects relating to the Bloomsbury Group. Liz Brooker’s postgraduate research was in the early 20th century novel, an interest which has been sustained through an alternative career in education. She is now a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at the University of London, Institute of Education, where she teaches, researches and publishes on young children’s learning in cultural contexts and their transitions through differing ecological environments. She is author ofYoung Children Learning Cultures (2002) and Supporting Transitions in the Early Years (2008). Peter Brooker is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex. He has written widely on contemporary writing and theory and is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004, 2007) and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2003). With Andrew Thacker, he is editor of Geographies of Modernism (2005) and co-director of the AHRC funded Modernist Magazine Project. The first of three volumes in the series A Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines will appear later this year. He is also co- editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Patrick Collier is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University in Indiana, USA, where he teaches film studies and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. He co-edited Transatlantic Print Culture 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernism (Palgrave 2008) with Ann Ardis. He is the author of Modernism on Fleet Street (Ashgate 2006) and numerous articles on the relationship between literature and journalism. Colin Dickey's most recent publication is Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. He is a Professor at the National University, Los Angeles. Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her most recent publication is The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008). Jane Garrity is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (Manchester University Press, 2003); the editor of a special issue on “Queer Space,” ELN: English Language Notes (Spring 2007); and the co-editor, with Laura Doan, of Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and NationalCulture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently at work on a book entitled Material Modernism: Fashioning Bloomsbury. Gretchen Gerzina is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and Honorary Professor at Exeter University. Her books include Carrington: A Life; Black England: Life Before Emancipation; Black Victorians/Black Victoriana (ed.); and Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unpredictable Life of the Author of The Secret Garden. She is the George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford 2009-2010. Diane F. Gillespie is Professor Emerita of English at Washington State University. One of her most recent publications is (2007) “The Gender of Modern/ist Painting” in Gender In Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, (ed.) Bonnie Kime Scott. Dr Jane Goldman is Reader in English