Woolf and the City.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Keynotes -- Pausing, Waiting, Repeating: Urban Temporality in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years -- The Years, Street Music, and Acoustic Space (abstract of plenary address) -- You then": Three Guineas, the Spanish Civil War, and the Challenge of Total War (abstract of plenary address) -- Navigating London -- Imagining Flânerie Beyond Anthropocentrism: Virginia Woolf, the London Archipelago, and City Tortoises -- Public Transport in Woolf 's City Novels: The London Omnibus -- Virginia Woolf Underground -- Street Haunting," Commodity Culture, and the Woman Artist -- A City in the Archives: Virginia Woolf and the Statues of London -- Spatial Perceptions and the Cityscape -- Queering London: Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Perception -- Reconfigured Terrain: Aural Architecture in Jacob's Room and The Years -- Dark pours over the outlines of houses and towers": Virginia Woolf's Prismatic Poetics of Space -- Regarding Others -- Woolf and the Falling Man -- How Strange": Affective and Evaluative Uncertainty in Mrs. Dalloway -- Cosmopolitanism From Below in Mrs. Dalloway and "Street Haunting -- The Literary Public Sphere -- The Bestseller and the City: Flush, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Cultural Hierarchies -- To "make that country our own country": The Years, Novelistic Historiography, and the 1930s -- Between Public and Private Acts: Woolf's Anti-Fascist Strategies -- Metropolis Unbound: Virginia Woolf's Heterotopian Utopian Impulse -- New World Archives: Scattered Seeds of a New Scholarship -- Border Crossings and Liminal Landscapes -- Contrasting Urban and Rural Transgressive Sexualities in Jacob's Room -- No Room for More": Woolf's Journey from London to Scotland, 1938 -- [D]irectly a box was unpacked the rooms became very different": Hotel Life and The Voyage Out.

An Archive in the City: "True Pictures" and Animated News Films of Suffragettes in the Holographs of Virginia Woolf's "The Movies" in the Berg Collection -- When dogs will become men": Melancholia, Canine Allegories, and Theriocephalous Figures in Woolf's Urban Contact Zones -- Teaching Woolf, Woolf Teaching -- The Streets of London: Virginia Woolf's Development of a Pedagogical Style -- Find Our Own Way for Ourselves": Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom -- Recreating Woolf's Public and Private Spaces in Architectural Design Education -- Recreating Woolf's Public and Private Spaces in Architectural Design Education -- Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation -- Forward: The Legacy of Virginia Woolf -- Inspired by Woolf: A Conversation -- Notes on Contributors -- Conference Program.

Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, focusing on urban issues. These include addressing the ethical and political implications of Virginia Woolf's work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a "real world" social critic.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.