Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace

Peter Adkins is an assistant lecturer at the University of Kent. He has recently completed a PhD on modernism and the Anthropocene which examined how the novels of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes responded to changing ideas about the planet, nonhuman life and the figure of the human in the early twentieth century. He is currently working on a monograph entitled The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. 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.

• IntroductionPeter Adkins and Derek RyanPART I: FORMS OF READING1. “Messages of Peace”: Bloomsbury’s Peace Terms; or, Working for “ancient woolf’s peace-time university”Jane Goldman2. Woolf and Criticism in the time of Post-Critique: “How Should One Read a Book?” and The Common ReaderJeff Wallace3. Reason, Ridicule, and Indifference: the Rhetoric of Nonviolence and Collective Security in the Essays of Virginia and Leonard Woolf Charles AndrewsPART II: ETHICAL ENCOUNTERS4. An Ethics of Wartime Protest: Voicing Servant Characters in To the Lighthouse and The YearsEleanor McNees5. “Peace as awakeness to the precariousness of the other”: Virginia Woolf’s Pacifist EthicsElsa Högberg6. “as if some animal were dying in a slow but exquisite anguish”: Glimpses of Animal Trauma in the Work of WoolfJeanne DubinoPART III: BROKEN BODIES7. The Disintegration of Sense and Bodies in Pain: Woolf, Wittgenstein, and the Rhetoric of WarMadelyn Detloff and Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr.8. Breaking the Peace: The Darwinian Politics of Virginia Woolf’s “creature Dictator” Saskia McCracken9. Woolf, Weeping Women and the European mater dolorosa Gill LowePART IV: RETRACING RELATIONS 10. ‘Peace was the third emotion’: Tripartite Balance in Between the ActsRachel Crossland11. “Real Loyalties”: War, Sibling Love, and Loss in The Voyage Out and Night and Day Jenni Råback 12. Thoughts on Flowering in an Air Raid: Apples and Poppies—Alive, Alive Oh!Elisa Kay SparksPART V: PROTEST AND HOPE13. Between Aesthetic and Political Theory: Virginia Woolf’s Utopian PacifismCaroline Pollentier14. Intersections: Propaganda and Just War TheoryJudith Allen15. Radical Hope as Protest: Virginia Woolf’s Everyday FeminismStanislava Dikova