Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Reading, Taking Notes, and Writing: Virginia Stephen’s Reviewing Practice....Pages 27-41
Circulating Ideas and Selling Periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the Nation and Athenaeum, and Topical Debat....Pages 43-55
Woolf’s Editorial Self-Censorship and Risk-Taking in Jacob’s Room....Pages 57-71
Between Writing and Truth: Woolf’s Positive Nihilism....Pages 73-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
How to Strike a Contemporary: Woolf, Mansfield, and Marketing Gossip....Pages 91-106
Something of a Firebrand: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Reputation of Emily Brontë....Pages 107-120
Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Commerce, Bestsellers, and the Jew....Pages 121-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Virginia Woolf and the Middlebrow Market of the Familiar Essay....Pages 137-149
Woolf Studies and Periodical Studies....Pages 151-165
 The “Keystone Public” and Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Time and Tide, and Cultural Hierarchies ....Pages 167-179
“Murdering an Aunt or Two”: Textual Practice and Narrative Form in Virginia Woolf’s Metropolitan Market....Pages 181-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
The “Grand Lady of Literature ”: Virginia Woolf in Italy under Fascism....Pages 199-208
Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero....Pages 209-221
Appropriating Virginia Woolf for the New Humanism: Seward Collins and The Bookman, 1927–1933 ....Pages 223-235
Don’t Judge a Cover by Its Woolf: Book Cover Images and the Marketing of Virginia Woolf’s Work....Pages 237-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-263