Virginia Woolf Miscellany NUMBER 96 FALL 2019-FALL 2020 Centennial Contemplations on Early Work (16) while Rosie Reynolds examines the numerous by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf o o o o references to aunts in The Voyage Out and examines You can access issues of the the narrative function of Rachel’s aunt, Helen To observe the centennial of Virginia Woolf’s Virginia Woolf Miscellany Ambrose, exploring Helen’s perspective as well as early works, The Voyage Out, and Night and online on WordPress at the identity and self-revelation associated with the Day, and also Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the https://virginiawoolfmiscellany. emerging relationship between Rachel and fellow Jungle. I invited readers to adopt Nobel Laureate wordpress.com/ tourist Terence. Daniel Kahneman’s approach to problem-solving and decision making. In Thinking Fast and Slow, Virginia Woolf Miscellany: In her essay, Mine Özyurt Kılıç responds directly Kahneman distinguishes between fast thinking— Editorial Board and the Editors to the call with a “slow” reading of the production typically intuitive, impressionistic and reliant on See page 2 process that characterizes the work of Hogarth Press, associative memory—and the more deliberate, Editorial Policies particularly in contrast to the mechanized systems precise, detailed, and logical process he calls slow See page 6 from which it was distinguished. She draws upon “A thinking. Fast thinking is intuitive, impressionistic, y Mark on the Wall,” “Kew Gardens,” and “Modern and dependent upon associative memory. Slow – TABLE OF CONTENTS – Fiction,” to develop the notion and explore the thinking is deliberate, precise, detailed, and logical. See page 11 metaphor of slow, conscious contemplation. At stake was a concern that Virginia Woolf’s early CFP for Allison Castle Combs’ detailed bibliography of novels have often been read as prelude to the more Professionthe 2021 scholarship on The Voyage Out picks up where celebrated works or practice in narrative art. The 30th Annual Conference on Mark Hussey’s entry on the novel in Virginia Woolf indices of numerous substantial contributions to Virginia Woolf A-Z left off in 1995 (see 328-45). Combs offers a Woolf studies bear this out, often marking merely commentary on the various approaches that have a hurried treatment or a passing reference to the See page 4 been applied to Woolf’s first novel during the last 25 early work. And so I asked Woolf scholars to In Memoriam: years. consider new approaches, contexts or dialogue and Molly Hoff respond to the question, “What have we missed?” Readers who want to access more material on these 1931-2019 The essays published here respond with vibrant early works will find that resources such asThe page 8 new readings that invite us all to reach onto the Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives, published by bookshelf and revisit these novels once again. Sally Jacobsen the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain in 2015 1939-2020 and edited by Sarah M. Hall, Mary Ellen Foley, Mary Wilson led a centenary panel on Night and page 9 Lindsay Martin, and Claire Nicholson and the 2019 Day at the 2019 MLA Convention. She shares a INTERNATIONAL Cambridge edition of Night and Day, edited by version of her essay on the artistic legacy of the VIRGINIA WOOLF Michael H. Whitworth, will inform further inquiry novel, from perspectives of its production and SOCIETY COLUMN on this evolving topic. its “place” in the completed Woolf oeuvre. She See page 52 has further challenged us to consider the value of The editorial board of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany IVWS OFFICERS AND adding these early works to a course syllabus. suggested that Leonard Woolf’s novels also be MEMBERS-AT-LARGE included in the call. Wayne K. Chapman graciously So much attention has been given to the major 2018-2020 & 2021-2023 accepted an invitation and produced a lyrical piece novels on the subject of architecture, space, See page 51 that offers a useful introduction to those unfamiliar interiors, and houses. Here Sayaka Okumura EVENTS, CFPS AND INFORMATION: with The Village in the Jungle. Chapman also examines transitional spaces in the Hilbery house CFP for the IVWS Annual references An Annotated Guide to the Writings and in Night and Day, specifically the telephone space Angelica Garnett Papers of Leonard Woolf, co-authored with Janet M. and the archive room of the dining room. Okumura Undergraduate Essay Prize Manson and published by Clemson in 2018, which contributes to recent discussions that position Night See page 2 maps Leonard’s literary and journalistic output in a and Day between nineteenth-century realism and “a 2020 & 2021 comprehensive manner. critical response towards contemporary issues and MLA Convention Panels and Papers radical social changes at the turn of the century” See page 3 Throughout a career of teaching and scholarship that have by necessity wandered away from (xx). She offers a strong analysis of the public/ Call for Proposals: Woolf studies into contemporary and postcolonial private merging of these spaces and their connection Annotated Woolf texts, I have often thought of Night and Day, to the emerging relationships among the younger Clemson University Press which presented itself like a problem child in my generation. See page 3 dissertation research on Woolf and historicity. The Candice Kent examines nonhuman referents in If you are interested in proposing a fact that at the end of her writing career Woolf Night and Day, focusing on the character and special topic or have or if you have any returned to issues of family legacy and historical relationships of Ralph Denham. She locates a key questions, please contact scale, in The Years and again in Between the Acts, narrative shift in perception of these referents from Vara Neverow at points to the threads that, although loosely woven conventional figuration to one more evocative of [email protected] early on, tugged at her with continued urgency, Bergsonian intuition, As Kent writes, Bergson n n n even when the call of lyrical modernism offered “prizes intuition over intellect, which serves action” somewhat of a respite. The essays in this issue 1 confirm the possibility of new connections and invite further slow readings of the early work. VIRGINIA WOOLF MISCELLANY Rebecca Duncan EDITORIAL BOARD Mary Lynch Johnson Professor of English EDITORIAL BOARD MEMEBERS Meredith College Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College [email protected] Works Cited Hall, Sarah M., Mary Ellen Foley, Lindsay Martin, and Claire Nicholson, Jeanne Dubino, Appalachian State University [email protected] eds. The Voyage Out: Centenary Perspectives. Oxford: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2015. Mark Hussey, Pace University Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A-Z. New York: Oxford University Press, [email protected] 1995. Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University Stephens, Rebecca. Virginia Woolf and the Textuality of History. 1993. [email protected] Florida State U, PhD Dissertation. Merry Pawlowski, California State University-Bakersfield Woolf, Virginia. Night and Day. Ed. Michael H. Whitworth. Cambridge: [email protected] Cambridge UP, 2019. Diana L. Swanson, Northern Illinois University [email protected] EDITORS Many thanks to the International Virginia Woolf Vara Neverow, Managing Editor Society for its generous and continuing support [email protected] Martin Brick of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. [email protected] Charlotte Fiehn [email protected] Lesley Higgins [email protected] mmm Celiese Lypka Call for Submissions for [email protected] the International Virginia Woolf Society Annual Cecilia Servatius Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize [email protected] The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host the BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Annual Undergraduate Essay Competition in honor of Virginia Karen Levenback Woolf and in memory of Angelica Garnett, writer, artist, and [email protected] daughter of Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell. For this competition, undergraduate essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Essays should be between 2000 and 2500 words in length, including notes and works cited, with an original title of the entrant’s choosing. Essays will be judged by the officers of the International Virginia Woolf Society: Kristin Czarnecki, President; Ann Martin, Vice-President; Alice Keane, Secretary-Treasurer; and Drew Shannon, Historian- Bibliographer. The winner will receive $200 and have the essay published in a subsequent issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Please send essays in the latest version of Word. All entries must be received by 30 June 2020. To receive an entry form, please contact Benjamin D. 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