It was three years ago that Elisa Bolchi emailed me to ask if I would contribute a chapter to the project originally dubbed “Worldwide Woolf.” I was surprised. I was honored. I was ecstatic. And of course I quickly emailed a “Yes.”
Now this follow-up to The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (2021), edited by Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pajak and Catherine W. Hollis, is out. So I am here to tell you more about this volume and its wonderful editing by Bolchi, Maria Rita Drumond Viana, Alice Davis Keane, Monica Latham, Sayaka Okumura, and Mine Özyurt Kılıç.
About the book
Besides a general introduction, Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives kicks off with a special foreward — the republishing of Brenda Silver’s essay “World Wide Woolf,” in print for the first time.
The volume’s 31 chapters are divided into three sections that analyze the cultural mediation that has shaped how readers and viewers worldwide encounter Woolf’s images and works today.
The three sections:
- Producing Woolf: Editing, Translating, Publishing
- Thinking through Woolf: Legacy and Contemporary Influence
- New Woolf, New Critical Perspectives
Research areas covered: rewriting, translation, dance, photography, fashion, contemporary art, digital humanities and drama
Areas represented by its writers: five continents including Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and 14 regions, including the U.S., Brazil, France, Italy, Turkey, Germany, the UK, Spain, Lithuania, Egypt, Israel, Japan, China and the Philippines.
More details
Pages: 488
Illustrations: 33 black and white
How to buy it
It is available at Edinburgh University Press. At $195 for a hardback or digital copy, the volume is pricey — as are most academic publications — so urge your institution’s library to purchase a copy. However, EUP offers a launch discount of 30 percent with the code NEW30 at checkout. I cannot guarantee the code is still viable, but it is worth a try.
About my chapter
My chapter, “Woolf on the World Wide Web: Creating a Community of Common and Scholarly Readers through Blogging Woolf,” is Chapter 31, the last in the volume. In it, I build on Silver’s insights as I explore the history of the blog, including its editorial content and its readership.
I also discuss its ability to foster collaboration among Woolf scholars and readers, as well as online and personal relationships.
