Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace

By Jeanne Dubino

Book Overview

Introduction PART I: WOOLF'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MARKETPLACE Reading, Taking Notes, and Writing: Virginia Stephen's Reviewing Practice; B.R.Daugherty Accessing Woolf: From Book to Reader - Virginia Woolf's Roles in Hogarth Press Distribution; E.Gordon Circulating Ideas and Selling Periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the Nation and Athenaeum, and Topical Debate; E.Dickens Woolf's Editorial Self-Censorship and Risk-Taking in Jacob's Room; V.Neverow Between Writing and Truth: Woolf's Positive Nihilism; J.McVicker PART II: WOOLF'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE MARKETPLACE How to Strike a Contemporary: Mansfield and Woolf on the Market; K.Macnamara Something of a Firebrand: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Reputation of Emily Bront?; H.Bean Virginia Woolf and Gertrude: Commerce, Bestsellers, and the Jew; K.Leick PART III: WOOLF'S MARKETPLACE Middles and Middlebrows: Virginia Woolf and the Market of the Familiar Essay; C.Pollentier Woolf Studies and Periodical Studies; P.Collier The 'Keystone Public' and Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own, Time and Tide, and Cultural Hierarchies; M.Sullivan 'Murdering an Aunt or two': Textual Practice and Narrative Form in Virginia Woolf's Metropolitan Market; J.Young PART IV: MARKETING WOOLF The Grand Lady of Literature: Virginia Woolf in Italian Literary Periodicals under Fascism; E.Bolchi Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Milan, Mondadori, 1933; S.Villa Virginia Woolf and The Bookman; Y.Uchida Don't Judge a Cover by Its Woolf: Book Cover Images and the Marketing of Virginia Woolf's Work; J-R.Falcetta

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349290556
• ISBN13: 9781349290550
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"