[Vwoolf] FW: anyone out there working on/writing VW fan fiction?

Thu Mar 7 09:25:10 EST 2024

I have found Monica Latham’s work absolutely invaluable (I am working on a ‘biography’ of Mrs Dalloway) and wanted to point out, also, that in addition to her chapter in the Edinburgh Companion to Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature, many other contributors to that volume also discuss examples of novels that relate to Woolf in various ways—too many for one email!

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Laura Cernat via Vwoolf
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] anyone out there working on/writing VW fan fiction?

Hi Todd & all, A similar phenomenon to the "parallel novel" is called "spinoff" in Birgit Spengler's 2015 book Literary Spinoffs and "minor character elaboration" in Jeremy Rosen's 2016 Minor Characters Have 

Hi Todd & all,

A similar phenomenon to the "parallel novel" is called "spinoff" in Birgit Spengler's 2015 book Literary Spinoffs and "minor character elaboration" in Jeremy Rosen's 2016 Minor Characters Have Their Day. I've also encountered the notion of "paraquel" in connection to Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (which is usually just considered a prequel).

Famous Woolf examples (aside from The Hours) are "Mr Dalloway" by Robin Lippincott and Talland House by Maggie Humm. But there are also of course Woolf biofictions, of which there are myriads in the last few decades. Monica Latham touches upon some 25 examples (or thereabouts) in her 2021 book on the topic. But she has worked on many others since then, not only in English but also in French. Marie-Laure Rigeade has also worked on this topic (see her co-edited volume with Latham on Recycling Woolf). There's a scholar (Elisabetta Varalda) working on Woolf bioficfions in Italy too, and so on. (For those interested, Varalda will give a talk on Woolf graphic biofictions online tomorrow at Goldsmiths, here's the link: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-maaheen-ahmed-and-elisabetta-varalda/__;!!KGKeukY!zKJyhmI4Vjf1ojWQDtcvCgPjwS24OCMFCaioyRm6K4E9cpdax7KphclQ-fGPtllY4u9-paJSYpMsa2eKaEryGA$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-maaheen-ahmed-and-elisabetta-varalda/__;!!KGKeukY!zVyF7RUSUw2hDFwfzZ7_zlgkDhuL7JCk4Iw3MvliY72jqKbhu6ZyqAUMbPaHHLQWJ30Y-k2TFzTakCTsj05Y7lSFi93jLQ$>  )

There's even a "Virginia Wolf" [sic] children's book, a real jewel with lovely illustrations and written with much humour. So it all depends on how much one wants to broaden the definition of fan fiction. This semester I'm teaching a class on "Afterlives of the Canon", which includes some examples on Woolf, but I'm super curious about what else people come up with, there should definitely be a list/ bibliography of all these ramifications. Perhaps material for a Woolf Salon?

All best wishes, 

Laura

Laura Cernat (she, they)

FWO Postdoctoral Fellow

KU Leuven, Department of Literary Studies

English Literature Research Group

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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] anyone out there working on/writing VW fan fiction? 

Hi, friends,

This is a useful page; are we talking about parallel fiction or one of the other categories listed at the bottom of the Wikipedia page?  I find myself increasingly generically confused; not at all an unpleasant state of mind.

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Take care.

Todd

Todd Avery

Professor

Department of English

University of Massachusetts Lowell
O'Leary Library 481
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] anyone out there working on/writing VW fan fiction? 

Hi again, Leslie, and thanks. 

I must say I have never given much thought to the genre quesion per se.  Two Seasons was the fruit of a personal near-obsession.  Following my first reading of To the Lighthouse decades ago, I felt what would become an abiding curiosity concerning Lily Briscoe's future. 

After a long university career writing critically about literature and cinema, I at last found myself able to return in a different manner that that of the critic, allowing Lily and the remaining Ramsays and friends to grow and change, first five years after the events of To the Lighthouse ("Autumn") and then another five ("Spring").  For the new writer I myself had become, I adopted the very mild pseudonym of J.D. Engle (instead of John Engle).  

Anyway, Leslie, while that perhaps doesn't help much, good luck with your research on the genre issue. I truly hope you enjoy Two Seasons and would love to hear your reactions.  

All best, 

John

John Engle

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Tel: 33 673869657

J.D. Engle, Two Seasons (Gatekeeper Press)

Le mer. 6 mars 2024, 06:36, Leslie Kathleen Hankins <lhankins at cornellcollege.edu <mailto:lhankins at cornellcollege.edu> > a écrit :

I just ordered your book and look forward to reading it. Have you come up with ways to categorize such books? The field of fan fiction seems wide open sometimes, and other times quite specific.

I'm just beginning my inquiry.  Best, Leslie

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 6:27 AM Leslie Kathleen Hankins <lhankins at cornellcollege.edu <mailto:lhankins at cornellcollege.edu> > wrote:

Thank you for the suggestion--I'll check it out!

The terms in general seem slippery in print "fan fiction" especially--homage? 

Leslie

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM J.D. Engle <jdengle14 at gmail.com <mailto:jdengle14 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Thanks for raising the question, Leslie.  Fan fiction may not be the appropriate term, but have you read Two Seasons, the sequel to To the Lighthouse?

Le mar. 5 mars 2024, 21:55, J.D. Engle <jdengle14 at gmail.com <mailto:jdengle14 at gmail.com> > a écrit :

Thanks for raising the question, Leslie.  Fan fiction is not really the appropriate term in this case, but have you read Two Seasons, the sequel to To the Lighthouse?

Le mar. 5 mars 2024, 10:42, Leslie Kathleen Hankins via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> > a écrit :

it doesn't have to be the internet kind--I'm also thinking of The Hours and other such books. I want to see if any of us are writing anything that could be considered fan fiction based on VW stories or novels . . .

Thanks in advance!! Leslie

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"I feel that strong emotion must leave its trace; and that it is only a question 

of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it,

 so that we shall be able to live our lives through from the start." 

                                                Virginia Woolf "A Sketch of the Past."    

(but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza). 

                                                  VW, Mrs Dalloway.

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"I feel that strong emotion must leave its trace; and that it is only a question 

of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it,

 so that we shall be able to live our lives through from the start." 

                                                Virginia Woolf "A Sketch of the Past."    

(but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza). 

                                                  VW, Mrs Dalloway.

Recent publication:

  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4z-rl6J50J9uHQMw3T6z2pWyExh01LaaiTDQ6ul7ykrwzaLuMI8PLix1j8TbL-mqh15ceZ9kLQ__;!!KGKeukY!zKJyhmI4Vjf1ojWQDtcvCgPjwS24OCMFCaioyRm6K4E9cpdax7KphclQ-fGPtllY4u9-paJSYpMsa2cY1tKVRA$ > 

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Leslie Kathleen Hankins

Professor

Department of English & Creative Writing

Norma and Richard Small Distinguished Professor 2022-2024

"I feel that strong emotion must leave its trace; and that it is only a question 

of discovering how we can get ourselves again attached to it,

 so that we shall be able to live our lives through from the start." 

                                                Virginia Woolf "A Sketch of the Past."    

(but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza). 

                                                  VW, Mrs Dalloway.

Recent publication:

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