[Vwoolf] Woolf in Conversation

Tue Sep 20 15:26:49 EDT 2022

Dear Kristina,
I echo Pat’s idea. I’ve taught a graduate course on Woolf and the Victorians for many years, varying it as I choose. I focused heavily on her father’s essays as well as on novels about which Woolf frequently wrote—Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Middlemarch, Far From the Madding Crowd, and were I to teach this again (now retired), I’d probably include Meredith. Many of the graduate students read these novels (amazingly) for the first time in my seminar!

Best,
Eleanor
Eleanor
Eleanor McNees, PhD
Professor Emerita
Department of English and Literary Arts
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208
eleanor.mcnees at du.edu

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Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 1:21 PM
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Dear Kristina. . . Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf and the Victorians. Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling, Bronte-Rhys, Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for bringing authors of different
Dear Kristina...
Some suggestions for Conversation courses--both Woolf and the Victorians. Victorians/Moderns: juxtaposition of Anand-Kipling, Bronte-Rhys, Disraeli-Engels, McEwan-Woolf. It's a neat structure for bringing authors of different cultures, countries, politics, history and periods into relief.

Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers

This course will focus on the novels of Virginia Woolf in juxtaposition with short readings from international modernist  women writers: Ding Ling (China); Anita Desai and Sara Suleri (India/Pakistan);  Christa Wolfe (Germany); Amelia Kahane-Carmon (Israel); Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes(America/France), Natalie Sarraute (France) among others.  Woolf’s polemics, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas, will frame geopolitical and modernist issues such as women’s participation in education, work, fiction and government as well as decisions about war. To the Lighthouse will illuminate the domestic, “Angel in the House; Mrs. Dalloway will introduce issues of gender that will take flight in the fantasy of Orlando; the great narrative experiment of The Waves will join with other modernist experiments. The way in which Woolf “travels” to other countries will be framed by the theories of de Saussure, M.M. Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Susan Stanford Friedman and James Clifford.

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English 793: Victorian Conversations
Syllabus
     This course presents British Victorian texts in conversation with modern or contemporary works, sometimes from different cultures.  Nineteenth-century preoccupations with virtue, duty, nation, colonialism, evolution, religion, race, class and gender are brought into relief in the twentieth century. One work answers another.
Jan. 26th: Introduction

Feb. 2nd:  “Florence Nightingale” in The Eminent Victorians
                Visit to the Darwin exhibit, Museum of Natural History (date to be arranged)

Feb. 9th:   Kipling, Kim, pp. 49-144 (ch.1-5)
                 Edward Said: Introduction

Feb. 16th: Kipling, Kim, pp. 145-338
                Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum”

Feb.23th:  Anand, The Untouchable, pp.9-92

March 2nd: Anand, The Untouchable, pp.93-157

March 9nd:  Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
                    Short essay due (topics to be discussed)

March 16th: Bronte, Jane Eyre

March 23:  Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, pp. 17-118

March 30:  Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, pp.119-190

April 6th:   Selected essays: Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf

April 12th-23rd: Spring Break

April 27th: Disraeli, Sybil
                  Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (excerpt)

May 4th: Disraeli, Sybil

May 11th: Ian McEwan, Saturday
                 Longer essay due (topics developed from and related to short oral reports)

May 17th: McEwan, Saturday

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 2:27 PM Andrea Zemgulys via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Dear Kristina, I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me know of a book she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry. ” I gather that she composed new poems from favorite Woolf passages. Nazifa Islam, Forlorn Light: ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍
Dear Kristina,

I haven’t read it yet, but a former student just let me know of a book she is publishing that is “found Woolf poetry.” I gather that she composed new poems from favorite Woolf passages.

Nazifa Islam, Forlorn Light: “...published with a small UK publisher so there hasn't been a lot of advertising for the collection, but here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.shearsman.com/store/Nazifa-Islam-Forlorn-Light-p362124177__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImR8OhJBJc$> is the book's webpage on the Shearsman Books site and here's<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nazifaislam.com/forlorn-light__;!!KGKeukY!39ZkxFsoltFWSS8qLos1wbFO8I9K5RUJqMfPptldUdJRaTmbtqrmtrmL6VJ78Zrmejq-NeAXd1f-vImRTQCbvB0$> the book's webpage on my own website, which is a bit more detailed."

Maybe something from this book will work for you…or you could have your students compose their own “found” poems — that might work very well for an assignment!

Sincerely,

Andrea Zemgulys
Michigan, USA

On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:06 PM, Kristina Groover via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:

Dear Woolfians,

I am developing an undergraduate course titled "Woolf in Conversation,"  and I would love to solicit your ideas.   I am particularly interested in having students read Woolf's work alongside contemporary women writers and writers of color.  Please share your ideas about writers and texts that you've found especially engaging when read in conversation with Woolf, especially with an undergraduate class in mind.  Many thanks!

Kristina Groover
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