A Companion to Virginia Woolf

A Companion to Virginia Woolf is a thorough examination of her life, work, and multiple contexts in 33 essays written by leading scholars in the field.  It contains insightful and provocative new scholarship and also sketches out new directions for future research. The essays approach Woolf s writing from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including modernism, post–colonialism, queer theory, animal studies, digital humanities, and the law.

In addition to providing in–depth discussion of her life and each of her main works, the essays explore the multiple trajectories Woolf s work travels around the world, from the Bloomsbury Group, and the Hogarth Press to India and Latin America.

As multi–faceted and innovative as Woolf s writing itself, this Companion is an important research tool that situates Woolf studies at the vanguard of contemporary literature scholarship and the new modernist studies.

Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She is the author of Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (2011) and Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (2001), and co–editor of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds: Selected Papers from the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2001). She is also co–editor of the Modernist Latitudes book series and second vice–president of the Modernist Studies Association, to succeed to vice–president (2015–16) and president (2016–17) .