To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolfs work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction.
This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolfs global reception and legacy. It contests the centre and periphery binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.
A collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolfs writing on contemporary global literature and culture.
Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), guest editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 50 (1997) and co-editor, with Beth C. Rosenberg, of Virginia Woolf and the Essay (St. Martin's Press, 1997).
