TY - BOOK AU - Czarnecki,Kristin AU - Rohman,Carrie TI - Virginia Woolf and the Natural World T2 - Clemson University Press W/ LUP Series SN - 9781942954149 AV - PR6045.O72 .V574 2011 U1 - 823.912 PY - 2011/// CY - Liverpool PB - Clemson University Press KW - Woolf, Virginia,-1882-1941-Criticism and interpretation-Congresses KW - Woolf, Virginia,-1882-1941 KW - Nature in literature-Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf -- "We Make Life": Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves -- "The Real World": Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism -- Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them -- "Everything tended to set itself in a garden": Virginia Woolf's Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach -- Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf -- The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf's "Seven-Sided Flower" and Henri Bergson's Intuition -- Crowding Clarissa's Garden -- The Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew -- The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather's One of Ours -- Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing -- "This, I fancy, must be the sea": Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf 's Writing -- Wild Swimming -- The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob's Room and Orlando -- The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One's Own in Nature and Art -- "The Bird is the Word": Virginia Woolf and W.H. Hudson, Visionary Ornithologist -- Evolution, History, and Flush -- or, The Origin of Spaniels -- "Lappin and Lapinova": A Woolf in Hare's Clothing? -- "A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage": Dining Well in Virginia Woolf 's Life and Work -- Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway -- Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905 -- "Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate": Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes -- Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through Nature -- Virginia Woolf as Mountaineer; "It was an uncertain spring": Reading Weather in The Years -- Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy -- "Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us": Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf -- Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf 's Narration -- "To give the moment whole": The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm)unity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves -- Spengler's The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W.B Yeats -- Listening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf's Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s -- Notes on Contributors -- Conference Program N2 - Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4803726 ER -