Bringing together over 70 influential critical articles, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is a collection of significant academic writing on the work of the great modernist writer, Virginia Woolf. Beginning with the academic rediscovery of Woolf in the mid-1970s, this collection charts the development of Woolf scholarship up to 2015. It comprises examinations of Woolf’s fiction and non-fictional writing, important manuscript and archival discoveries and biographical analyses, as well as critical work on Woolf’s feminism, aesthetics and cultural writing. Each volume includes a substantial contextualising introduction surveying Woolf studies in the decade covered. Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential academic resource for scholars and common readers alike.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1: 1975-1984 General Editor's Introduction Chronology of Woolf's Life Chronological List of Woolf's Publications A Chronological History of Woolfian Community Introduction, Vara S. Neverow 1. “To Crush Him in Our Own Country”: The Political Thought of Virginia Woolf, Berenice Carroll 2. The Whole Contention of Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, Revisited, Beth Daugherty 3. Lighting the Cave: The Relationship Between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Louise DeSalvo 4. The Voyage Out, Avrom Fleishman 5. Virginia Woolf and the Art of Madness, Susan M. Kenney and Edwin J. Kenney, Jr. 6. Jacob's Room as Comedy: Woolf's Parodic Bildungsroman, Judy Little 7. 'Combining “The Advantages of Fact and Fiction”: Virginia Woolf's Biographies of Vita Sackville West, Flush and Roger Fry', Thomas S. W. Lewis 8. Gallant Red Brick and Plain China: Teaching A Room of One's Own, Martha McClintock Folsom 9. Mrs. Dalloway: The Repetition as the Raising of the Dead, J. Hillis Miller 10. Nature and History in The Years, James Naremore 11. Tradition and Revision: The Classic City Novel and Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Susan Squier 12. Spatial Form and Color in The Waves, Jack F. Stewart 13. The Celebration of Eros: Greek Concepts of Love and Beauty in To The Lighthouse, Jean Wyatt 14. Between the Acts and the Coming of War, Alex Zwerdling Bibliography Volume 2: 1985-1994 Introduction, Jeanne Dubino 1. “Cam the wicked”: Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as Her Father's Daughter, Elizabeth Abel 2. The Island and the Aeroplane: The Case of Virginia Woolf, Gillian Beer 3. The Subject in Jacob's Room, Edward L. Bishop 4. Flush and the Literary Canon: The Value of Popular Appeal, Pamela L. Caughie 5. Virginia Woolf and the Imperial Gaze: A Glance Askance, Michelle Cliff 6. The Politics of Comic Modes in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Melba Cuddy-Keane 7. Ideology into Fiction: Virginia Woolf's “A Sketch of the Past”, Emily Dalgarno 8. “What Fools We Were!” Virginia Woolf's “A Society”, Susan Dick 9. Incest, Erasure, and The Years, David Eberly 10. A Room of One's Own, Personal Criticism, and the Essay, Anne Fernald 11. Disfigured Figures: Virginia Woolf's Disabled List, David Galef 12. The Midday Topos in Mrs. Dalloway, Molly Hoff 13. Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Mark Hussey 14. The Whole Achievement in Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader, Georgia Johnston 15. “If I saw you would you kiss me?” Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Sherron E. Knopp 16. 'And Darwin says they are nearer the cow': Evolutionary Discourse in Melymbrosia and The Voyage Out, Elizabeth G. Lambert 17. Britannia Rules The Waves, Jane Marcus 18. Through Formalism: Feminism and Virginia Woolf's Relation to Bloomsbury Aesthetics, Christopher Reed 19. Introduction to The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf’s Novels, Lucio P. Ruotolo 20. The Word Split Its Husk: Woolf's Double Vision of Modernist Language, Bonnie Kime Scott Bibliography Volume 3: 1995-2004 Introduction, Kathryn Simpson 1. Exposing the “Nerves of Language”: Virginia Woolf, Charles Mauron, and the Affinity Between Aesthetics and Illness, Kimberly Engdahl Coates 2. Virginia Woolf in the Pay of Booksellers: Commerce, Privacy, Professionalism, Orlando, Patrick Collier 3. Reading Uncommonly: Virginia Woolf and the Practice of Reading, Kate Flint 4. Virginia Woolf and Post-Impressionism: French Art, English Theory, and Feminist Practice, Jane Goldman 5. Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: Compulsory Heterosexuality in The Years, Clare Hanson 6. The Ethics of Indecency: Censorship, Sexuality, and the Voice of the Academy in the Narration of Jacob's Room, Susan C. Harris 7. From Hubble's Telescope to Virginia Woolf's “The Searchlight”, Holly Henry 8. Revisiting Woolf's Representations of Androgyny: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Nation, Karen Kaivola 9. Modernism, Subjectivity, and Narrative Form: Abstraction in The Waves, Tamar Katz 10. The Jew in the Bath: Imperiled Imagination in Woolf's The Years, Maren Linett 11. Links into Fences: The Subtext of Class Division in Mrs. Dalloway, Natania Rosenfeld 12. Locating a Native Englishness in Virginia Woolf's “The London Scene”, Sonita Sarker 13. Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Space: “The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection”, Tracy Seeley 14. Of Fanciers, Footnotes, and Fascism: Virginia Woolf's Flush, Anna Snaith 15. Name that Face, Alice Staveley 16. Virginia Woolf and the Flesh of the World, Louise Westling 17. Woolf, Postcards, and the Elision of Race: Colonizing Women in The Voyage Out, Mark Wollaeger Bibliography Volume 4: 2005-2015 Introduction, Gill Lowe 1. Virginia Woolf and Changing Conceptions of Nature, Christina Alt 2. “Wretched Sparrows”: Protectionists, Suffragettes and the Irish, David Bradshaw 3. The Conversation Behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable in Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs 4. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Healing: Woolf, Medicine and Professionalization, Evelyn T. Chan 5. Virginia Woolf's Feminist Historiography in Orlando, Jane de Gay 6. “‘Myself’- It Was Impossible”: Queering History in Between the Acts, Erica Delsandro 7. Woolf's Exploration of “the Outer and the Inner”: a Spatial Analysis of The Years, Elizabeth F. Evans 8. Writing Was Her Fighting: Three Guineas as a Pacifist Response to Total War, J. Ashley Foster 9. The Death of Jacob Flanders: Greek Illusion and Modern War in Jacob's Room, Christine Froula 10. Bushmen and Blackface: Bloomsbury and Race, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 11. Modernist Life Writing and Nonhuman Lives: Ecologies of Experience in Virginia Woolf's Flush, David Herman 12. “Memory Holes” or “Heterotopias”: The Bloomsbury Photographs, Maggie Humm 13. Virginia Woolf and Poor Women, Alison Light 14. “In the Circle of the Lens”: Woolf's “Telescope” Story, Scene-making and Memory, Laura Marcus 15. Boredom and Individualism in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, Allison Pease 16. Woolf's Short Stories as a Paradoxical and Dynamic Space, Christine Reynier 17. “I Meant Nothing by the Lighthouse”: Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Negation, Roberta Rubenstein 18. “Nature, Who Has Played So Many Queer Tricks Upon Us”: Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf, Derek Ryan 19. “Here Again is the Usual Door”: the Modernity of Virginia Woolf's “Street Haunting”, Randi Saloman 20. A Hogarth Press Timeline, Helen Southworth 21. Shell Shock and Hysterical Fugue, or Why Mrs Dalloway Likes Bach, Emma Sutton 22. Meals and Mourning in Woolf's The Waves, Janine Utell 23. The Hogarth Press, Digital Humanities, and Collaboration: Introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth and Claire Battershill Bibliography