This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

'The openness is generous, and reveals how research ought to be: curious, unafraid to get jammed, thinking its way around obstacles, serendipitous. This is criticism as exploration, undaunted and exhilarating." - Jim Stewart, TLS

'...a lively and entertaining collection of essays, that both refreshes common ground and...is unafraid to extend its reach.' - Virginia Woolf Bulletin

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CHRISTINA ALT SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada ANNA BOGEN DPhil University of Sussex, UK KRISTIN CZARNECKI Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown College, Kentucky, USA BENJAMIN HARVEY Assistant Professor of Art History, Mississippi State University, USA MAGGIE HUMM Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK CAROLINE MARIE Maître de Conférences, Université Paris 8, France MAKIKO MINOW-PINKNEY Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bolton, UK SUZANNE RAITT Professor of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA BETH RIGEL DAUGHERTY English and Integrative Studies, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, USA ELISA KAY SPARKS Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA MORAG SHIACH Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK CECIL WOOLF Nephew of Leonard Woolf and founder of Cecil Woolf Books

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Preface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Back to Bloomsbury; C.Woolf The Voyage Back: Woolf's revisions and returns; S.Raitt 'Young writers might do worse': Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Virginia Stephen and Virginia Woolf; B.Rigel Daugherty Mapping the Ghostly City: Cambridge, A Room of One's Own and the University Novel; A.Bogen London Rooms; M.Shiach Leonard and Virginia's London Library: Mapping London's Tides, Streams and Statues; E.K.Sparks Sense of Self and Sense of Place in Orlando : Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics of Pantomime; C.Marie 'My own ghost met me': Woolf's 1930s photographs, death and Freud's Acropolis; M.Humm Woolf, Fry, and the Psycho-Aesthetics of Solidity; B.Harvey Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature; C.Alt Comparative Modernism: The Bloomsbury Group and the Harlem Renaissance; K.Czarnecki Sketches of Carlyle's House by Two Visitors, a Young Virginia Woolf and a Japanese Novelist, Soseki Natsume; M.Minow-Pinkney Bibliography Index