| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Woolf's engagement with the marketplace: Reading, taking notes, and writing: Virginia Stephen's reviewing practice / Beth Rigel Daugherty; Circulating ideas and selling periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the nation and athenaeum, and topical debate / Elizabeth Dickens; Woolf's editorial self-censorship and risk-taking in Jacob's room / Vara Neverow; Between writing and truth: Woolf's positive nihilism / Jeanette McVicker -- Part II. Woolf's relationship to the marketplace: How to strike a contemporary: Woolf, Mansfield, and marketing gossip / Katie Macnamara; Something of a firebrand: Virginia Woolf and the literary reputation of Emily Bronte / Heather Bean; Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: commerce, bestsellers, and the Jew / Karen Leick -- Part III. Woolf's marketplaces: Virginia Woolf and the market of the familiar essay / Caroline Pollentier; Woolf studies and periodical studies / Patrick Collier; The keystone public and Virginia Woolf: A room of one's own, Time and tide, and cultural hierarchies / Melissa Sullivan; Murdering an aunt or two: textual practice and narrative form in Virginia Woolf's metropolitan market / John K. Young -- Part IV. Marketing Woolf: The grand lady of literature: Virginia Woolf in Italy under fascism / Elisa Bolchi; Translating Orlando in 1930s Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero / Sara Villa; Appropriating Virginia Woolf for the new humanism: Seward Collins and The Bookman, 1927-1933 / Yuzu Uchida; Don't Judge a cover by its Woolf: book cover images and the marketing of Virginia Woolf's work / Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta |
| Summary |
These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on new archival material, thic volume makes important new contributions to the study of 'gift economy' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Literature publishing
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Book industries and trade
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| SUBJECT |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Authors and publishers -- England -- History -- 20th century
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Authorship -- Marketing -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature publishing
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Book industries and trade
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Authors and publishers
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Authorship -- Marketing
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Publishers and publishing
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dubino, Jeanne, 1959-
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| ISBN |
9780230114791 |
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0230114792 |
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9781349290550 |
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1349290556 |
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