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Virginia Woolf's deep and creative interest in materiality is not only illuminated by but precedes current theorisations of objects, things and matter among them, new materialism, object-oriented ontology and thing theory. Through both critical and creative engagements, contributors explore the possibilities and limitations of these theoretical accounts: what new readings they afford; what they say that Woolf has already shown us; and how Woolf goes beyond or can't be fully captured by these ideas. This volume thus gathers various, sometimes even contradictory, approaches on the topic; in turn, it emphasises congruences and tensions in theoretical, literary and cultural interpretations of Woolf's material investments. What emerges in Virginia Woolf Objects, Things, Matter is an account of how Woolf reveals things to be vital, active and strange by refiguring the relationship between subject and object and, at times, even inverting, subverting or redefining those very terms.
Contents
List of Figures
Note on the Cover
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Virginia Woolf - Objects, Things, Matter
Laci Mattison
Part I. Approaches to Objects, Things and Matter in Woolf
1. Virginia Woolf and Modernist New Materialism
Derek Ryan
2. Jacob's Im/material Form
Geoff Bender
3. Inanimacy: Virginia Woolf's Materialisms
Maurizia Boscagli
4. 'Of being herself invisible': Object, Thing, Matter and Use in Mrs Dalloway and Three Guineas
Ann Martin
5. A Toy Boat of Her Own: Gender, Play and Education in Virginia Woolf's Writings
Imola Nagy-Seres
6. Cotton, Race, Embodiment and 'the thing itself' in Woolf
Jane Garrity
7. Virginia Woolf's Misuse of 'Cotton Wool' in 'A Sketch of the Past': Writing the Wound
Davi Pinho
Part II. Object Experiments with Woolf
8. Object Lessons
Shilo McGiff
9. Material Reading: Letterpress Printing with Woolf
Ane Thon Knutsen
10. The Life of Monday or Tuesday
Jane Goldman
11. More Surfaces: A Monologue, or the Queer Interiorities of a Gramophone
James Brock
12. six
Erik Fuhrer
13. Spider Kingdom
Brandi George
Part III. A Collection of Woolfian Things
14. The Jug in the Borderland
Douglas Mao
15. 'Enjoying this Immortal Rhythm': Woolf and the Gramophone
Aimée Gasston
16. The Ghostly Pencil
Graham Fraser
17. 'tremb tremulous fitful': Missed Encounters in Mirrors
Melissa Alexander
18. The 'Vanished' Walrus Pen-Wiper: Waste and the Animal Object
Laci Mattison
19. Pointz Hall as Hyperobject: Woolf's Deep Geological History in Between the Acts
Leanna Lostoski-Ho
Afterword: Upheavals of Matter
Bill Brown
Index
