Virginia Woolf

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe is part of the Project's sub-series on Twentieth Century Authors. The volume editors are Prof. Mary Ann Caws (CUNY, Graduate Centre) and Dr Nicola Luckhurst (Goldsmiths). The volume was published in November 2002.

Dr Nicola Luckhurst is Lecturer in Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Bloomsbury in 'Vogue' (Cecil Woolf 1998) and her article " 'To quote my quotation from Montaigne' " appeared in Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance, edited by Sally Greene (Ohio University Press, 1999). She has also co-edited a collection of the correspondence of Stéphane Mallarmé (Legenda, 1998) and her Science and Structure in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu' was published by Oxford University Press (February, 2000). She is currently translating Freud's Studies in Hysteria and writing a study of Gisèle Freund, the photographer of Virginia Woolf and other literary figures.

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, City University of New York, and the Co-Director of the Henri Peyre French Institute; past President of the Modern Language Association of America, and of the Academy of Literary Studies, and recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, N. E. H. and Getty Fellowships. She is the author, editor, or translator of over forty books on literature and the arts, and the author of Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington; Bloomsbury and France; and Penguin Illustrated Lives: Virginia Woolf.

Eighteen essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which Virginia Woolf has been translated, evaluated and emulated in French, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and Portuguese. A final chapter looks at the European dimensions of the Hogarth Press.

November 2002 · 234 x 156 mm · 480 pp. · Hardback · ISBN: 0 8264 5588 3 · £100.00

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Contents of the Volume

Series Editor's Preface: Elinor Shaffer

Timeline: Paul Barnaby

Preface: Mary Ann Caws

Introduction: Nicola Luckhurst

I French

Virginia Woolf Among Writers and Critics: The French Intellectual Scene Pierre-Eric Villeneuve · The French Reception of Virginia Woolf: An 'Etat Présent' of 'Etudes Woolfiennes' Carole Rodier · Translating Virginia Woolf into French Françoise Pellan · A Virginia Woolf, with a French Twist Mary Ann Caws

II German

The German Reception and Criticism of Virginia Woolf: A Survey of Phases and Trends in the Twentieth Century Ansgar & Vera Nünning · Installing Modernism: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in the German Democratic Republic Wolfgang Wicht

III Polish

From Silence to a Polyphony of Voices: Virginia Woolf's Reception in Poland Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga

IV Swedish

'Literature is No One's Private Ground': The Critical and Political Reception of Virginia in Sweden Catherine Sandbach-Dahlström

V Danish

Waves of Influence: The Danish Reception of Virginia Woolf Ida Klitgård

VI Greek

'The Country of the Moon' and the woman of 'Interior Monologue': Virginia Woolf in Greece Katerina K. Kitsi-Mitakou

VII Italian

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Italy Sergio Perosa

VIII Spanish

'A Gaping Mouth, But No Words': Virginia Woolf Enters the Land of Butterflies Laura Lojo Rodriguez · The Emerging Voice: A Review of Spanish Scholarship on Virginia Woolf Alberto Lázaro · Virginia Woolf and the Search for Symbolic Mothers in Modern Spanish Fiction: The Case of 'Tres Mujeres' María José Gámez Fuentes

IX Galician

'A Fastness of Their Own': The Galician Reception of Virginia Woolf Manuela Palacios

X Catalan

Modernism, Nationalism and Feminism: Representations of Virginia Woolf in Catalonia Jacqueline A. Hurtley

XI Portuguese

The Portuguese Reception of Virginia Woolf Graça Abranches

XII History of Publishing

The European Dimensions of the Hogarth Press Laura Marcus

 

A Colloquium on Virginia Woolf’s reception in Europe was held by the Project on 9th October 1998 at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London. To see the programme, click here.

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