Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, Volume 1: Aesthetic Theory and Literary Practice

Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury, published in two volumes, focuses on the politics and aesthetics of Bloomsbury. This volume brings together new scholarship on Woolf's writing, which illuminates the wide and continuing reverberations of her work. The chapters in this volume consider themes including eco-criticism, women as intellectuals and writers, implications of spaces and places, questions of identity and ideas of the self, and how Woolf's work has influenced writers from outside Woolf's own literary circle and cultural milieu. Featuring work by an international group of scholars, this collection includes essays by Christian Alt, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Maggie Humm, Suzanne Raitt and Morag Shiach. The volume opens with an affectionate personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.