Review of Angeliki Spiropoulou's Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin

“I am not Virginia Woolf,” a character exclaims in Lidia Yuknavitch’s award-winning novel The Small Backs of Children (2015). But who among us is? If we are women writers, particul...

“Questions of affection are, of course, always disputable. I can only reiterate that while I would cheerfully become Shakespeare’s cat, Scott’s pig, or Keats’s canary […] I would n...

On April 12, 1937 Virginia Woolf became a star. The occasion: her appearance on the cover of Time magazine; the impetus: the publication of her new novel, The Years. For the anon...

The spectres of past and future imagined literary spaces pervade Angeliki Spiropoulou’s chapter. Drawing on classical and Renaissance constructions of the hero and the poet, Spirop...

This study takes up Virginia Woolf’s challenge in ‘The Leaning Tower’ to probe the relationship between a writer’s education and that writer’s literary work, specifically Virginia ...

This introduction theorises what it means to read Virginia Woolf as a writer of the Anthropocene. It does so initially by situating Woolf within the early twentieth century’s growi...

The introduction opens with a brief interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s first short story, ‘The Mark on the Wall’ (1917), which positions Woolf’s investment in materiality as signif...

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries seeks to contextualize Virginia Woolf’s writing alongside the work of other women writers during the first decades of the twentieth-cen...