Her efforts are designed to tie in with the edited volume for which she issued a call for papers in August. Click here for details of Southworth’s call for papers.
Southworth says she is looking for papers that deal with the following:
stories of authors, artists, and workers published by and/or associated with the Woolfs’ press
papers that expand on Willis’ history of the Hogarth Press.
Anyone interested in submitting a paper to the edited volume or becoming involved in a conference panel, should contact Southworth as soon as possible.
Contact information: Helen Southworth
Clark Honors College
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
The deadline for Denver panel proposals is now Jan. 11.
The collection is tentatively titled Forthcoming from the Hogarth Press: How Leonard and Virginia Woolf Shaped Twentieth Century Publishing.
Southworth says the edited volume will appear in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017. The editor is looking for essays that highlight the innovative quality of the Hogarth Press.
Southworth says the edited volume will appear in advance of the centenary of the founding of the Press in 2017. The editor is looking for essays that highlight the innovative quality of the Hogarth Press with a look at the following:
stories of some of the lesser known artists and their cover art,
stories of some of the press workers,
stories of some of the lesser known authors, and
essays on overlooked titles by well known authors who published with the Hogarth Press.
She expects the collection to assess the impact the Hogarth Press had on the careers of those connected with it who are usually overlooked. It will also deal with the broader issue of how the Hogarth Press shaped book production over the course of the 20th century.
Essays focused on individual authors or groups of authors/artists/texts, etc. are encouraged. Of particular interest is work that highlights archival sources, work which makes use of the now established Hogarth Press archives at Reading University and at Washington State University, for example, as well as author/artist/publisher specific collections.
Also welcome are essays which engage with recent critical work on literary/artistic modernism and publishing and the marketplace, bibliographical environment, networks, celebrity, censorship, and archive studies.
The call for papers asks that themes address (but are not limited to):
risks that the Woolfs took in terms of possibilities of censorship
innovations in cover art and other aspects of printing and book marketing
the Woolfs’ relationships with English provincial writers and with writers from the colonies
the Woolfs’ engagement with new ideas in the sciences, popular culture, peace studies, fashion, cinema, etc.
the Woolfs’ collaboration with press workers and with patrons
the translations the Woolfs themselves engaged in and those they published at the press
the Hogarth Press in the archives
the portrayal of the Hogarth Press in contemporary fiction
the Hogarth Press’ role in a specific author’s, artist’s, press worker’s careers
the relationship of the Hogarth Press to other presses of the period
Completed essays of 20-25 pages, double spaced, (MLA style preferred), along with queries and suggestions, should be sent to Helen Southworth, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1293.
In the book, Adams, a psychologist and former English professor, tells the story of five exceptional women writers — including Woolf — who obtained emotional support from their canine pets. In Woolf’s case, Adams suggests that her depiction of a dog’s trauma in her biography Flush dealt with her own childhood molestation.
Adams’s argument may be skewed by its limited focus. But the tome, which Publisher’s Weekly calls a “sweet, quirky book” is still worth a look. Read a review.
A quote posted at the top of the Portland, Oregon, doggie daycare’s Web site leaves us no doubt about the Woof establishment’s intentional connection to Woolf. The quote from the author reads: “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
