Contradictory Woolf

Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and author of Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (Edinburgh UP, 2015). He has published widely on modernism and animality and is currently completing, with Linden Peach and Jane Goldman, the Cambridge Edition of Woolf’s Flush: A Biography. His most recent book is The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (Bloomsbury, 2018), edited with Stephen Ross, and he is Literature Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Dr Stella Bolaki is Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English at the University of Kent.

• Preface - Jane GoldmanIntroduction to Contradictory Woolf - Derek Ryan and Stella BolakiAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsJudith Allen - "But... I had said 'but' too often." Why "but"?Michael H. Whitworth - Woolf, Context, and ContradictionPatricia Waugh - "Did I not banish the soul?" Thinking Otherwise, Woolf-wiseSuzanne Bellamy - "The Play's The Thing BUT We Are The Thing Itself." Prologue, Performance and Painting. A Multimedia Exploration of Woolf's Work in the Late 1930s and Her Vision of PrehistoryMarina Warner - Report to the Memoir Club: Scenes from a Colonial ChildhoodLois J. Gilmore - "But somebody you wouldn't forget in a hurry": Bloomsbury and the Contradictions of African ArtMaggie Humm - Contradictions in Autobiography: Virginia Woolf's Writings on ArtAmber K. Regis - "But something betwixt and between": Roger Fry and the Contradictions of BiographyOren Goldschmidt - "Can 'I' become 'we'?": Addressing Community in The Years and Three GuineasLaci Mattison - Woolf's Un/Folding(s): The Artist and the Event of the Neo-BaroqueAngeliki Spiropoulou - Woolf's Contradictory ThinkingSowon S. Park - The Feeling of Knowing in Mrs. Dalloway: Neuroscience and WoolfStella Bolaki - "When the lights of health go down": Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics and Contemporary Illness NarrativesJanet Winston - Kinetic Tropes, Comedic Turns: Dancing To The LighthouseClaire Nicholson - But Woolf was a Sophisticated Observer of Fashion...: Virginia Woolf, Clothing and ContradictionVara S. Neverow - Bi-sexing the Unmentionable Mary Hamiltons in A Room of One's Own: The Truth and Consequences of Unintended Pregnancies and Calculated Cross-DressingKatharine Swarbrick - Lacanian OrlandoJeanne Dubino - The Bispecies Environment, Coevolution, and FlushDerek Ryan - From Spaniel Club to Animalous Society: Virginia Woolf's FlushSam Wiseman - Ecology, Identity, and Eschatology: Crossing the Country and the City in WoolfDiane F. Gillespie - "Please Help Me!" Virginia Woolf, Viola Tree, and the Hogarth PressMadelyn Detloff - "Am I a Snob?" Well, Sort of: Socialism, Advocacy, and Disgust in Woolf's Economic WritingKathryn Simpson - "Come buy, come buy": Woolf's Contradictory Relationship to the MarketplaceMakiko Minow-Pinkney - Virginia Woolf and December 1910: The Question of the Fourth DimensionJocelyn Rodal - Virginia Woolf on Mathematics: Signifying OppositionAmanda Golden - "A Brief Note in the Margin: Virginia Woolf and Annotating"Gill Lowe - "Observe, Observe Perpetually," Montaigne, Virginia Woolf and the "Patron au Dedans"Kristin Czarnecki - Who's Behind the Curtain? Virginia Woolf, "Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble", and the Anxiety of AuthorshipClaire Davison - Virginia Woolf and the Russian OxymoronRebecca DeWald - "A Dialogue ... about this Beauty and Truth": Jorge Luis Borge's Translation of Virginia Woolf's OrlandoLeslie Kathleen Hankins - "As I spin along the roads I remodel my life": Travel Films "projected into the shape of Orlando"John Coyle - Travesty in Woolf and ProustWayne K. Chapman - Woolf, Yeats, and the Making of "Spilt Milk"Sara Sullam - Figures of Contradiction: Virginia Woolf's Rhetoric of GenresIan Blyth - Do Not Feed the Birds: Night and Day and the Defence of the Realm ActKaren L. Levenback - Approaches to War and Peace in Woolf: "A Chapter on the Future"Cecil Woolf - Duncan GrantNotes on ContributorsConference Program