A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.

• Contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and sketches out new directions for future research
• Approaches Woolf's writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post-colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law
• Explores the multiple trajectories Woolf's work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America
• Situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies

About the Author

Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), and co-editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2001). She is also co-editor of the Modernist Latitudes book series and second vice-president of the Modernist Studies Association, to succeed to vice-president (2015-16) and president (2016-17).

Reviews

"...Berman succeeds in showing the enormous relevance of contemporary approaches to Woolf studies, and of Woolf studies to global and transnational print culture, now and in her own time." - Mary Jean Corbett, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Number 96, Fall 2019-Fall 2020

Book Information
ISBN 9781118457887
Author Jessica Berman
Format Hardback
Page Count 528
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1157g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 173mm * 28mm