Virginia Woolf and heritage - Jane De Gay

This volume
aims to situate Virginia
Woolf
as a writer who,
despite her
fame as
a
leading modernist, also drew on a rich literary and cultural heritage. The chapters in this volume explore the role her family heritage,
literary
tradition
and
heritage
locations
play
in
Woolf' s
works,
uncovering
the
influence
the past had on her work, and particularly her deep indebtedness to the Victorian period in the process. It looks at how she reimagined heritage, including her queer readings of the past. This volume also aims to examine
Woolf' s
own
literary
legacy:
with
essays
examining
her
reception
in
Romania,
Poland
and France and her impact on contemporary writers like Alice Munro and Lidia Yuknavitch. Lastly, Woolf' s standing in the increasingly popular field of biofiction is explored. The collection features an extended chapter
on
Virginia
Woolf' s
relationship
with
her
cousin
H.A.L.
Fisher
by
David
Bradshaw,
and
an extended chapter by Laura Marcus on Woolf and the concept of shame.