Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, edited by Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman (Clemson, SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011), xii, 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-9835339-0-0
The Twentieth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf was hosted by Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, and ran from June 3-6, 2010.
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About the Book
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World is a compilation of thirty-one essays presented at the twentieth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. This volume explores Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. The diversity of topics within this collection—ecofeminism, the nature of time, the nature of the self, nature and sporting, botany, climate, and landscape, just to name a few—fosters a deeper understanding of the nature of nature in Woolf's works. Contributors include Bonnie Kime Scott, Carrie Rohman, Diana Swanson, Elisa Kay Sparks, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Jane Goldman, and Diane Gillespie, among many others from the international community of Woolf scholars.
CONTENTS
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Kristin Czarnecki and Carrie Rohman | Introduction to Woolf and the Natural World |
| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott | Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf |
| Carrie Rohman | "We Make Life": Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves |
| Diana Swanson | "The Real World": Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism |
| Cecil Woolf | Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them |
| Elisa Kay Sparks | "Everything tended to set itself in a garden": Virginia Woolf's Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach |
| Beth Rigel Daugherty | Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf |
| Laci Mattison | The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf's "Seven-Sided Flower" and Henri Bergson's Intuition |
| Erin Penner | Crowding Clarissa's Garden |
| Rachel Zlatkin | The Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew |
| Jane Lilienfield | The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather's One of Ours |
| Rebecca McNeer | Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing |
| Patrizia Muscogiuri | "This, I fancy, must be the sea": Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing |
| Gill Lowe | Wild Swimming |
| Vara Neverow | The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob's Room and Orlando |
| Jane Goldman | The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One's Own in Nature and Art |
| Diane Gillespie | "The Bird is the Word": Virginia Woolf and W. H. Hudson, Visionary Ornithologist |
| Jeanne Dubino | Evolution, History, and Flush; or, The Origin of Spaniels |
| Kathryn Simpson | "Lappin and Lapinova": A Woolf in Hare's Clothing? |
| Alice Lowe | "A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage": Dining Well in Virginia Woolf's Life and Work |
| Kate Sedon | Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway |
| Barbara Lonnquist | Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905 |
| Xiaoqin Cao | "Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate": Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes |
| Diana Royer | Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through Nature |
| Catherine W. Hollis | Virginia Woolf as Mountaineer |
| Verita Sriratana | "It was an uncertain spring": Reading Weather in The Years |
| Elise Swinford | Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy |
| Derek Ryan | "Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us": Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf |
| Dominic Scheck | Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf's Narration |
| Emily Hinnov | "To give the moment whole": The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm) unity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves |
| Wayne Chapman | Spengler's The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W. B. Yeats |
| Luke Reader | Listening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf's Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Conference Program |