[Vwoolf] Call For Papers: 1930s Woolf

[Erica Delsandro]

Hello all!

I hope summer is treating everyone well!  I am writing to remind everyone
that the deadline for submission to the 1930s Woolf issue of *The Virginia
Woolf Miscellany* is fast approaching.  I am very excited and look forward
to a diversity of rich and dynamic contributions!

Below is the extended call for papers.  I have attached it as well.
 Please, I would greatly appreciate the forwarding of this CFP to others
who may be interested in the topic but who would not necessarily consider
themselves Woolf scholars.

Thank you so very much!  Best wishes! -- Erica Delsandro



*CALL FOR PAPERS: Virginia Woolf Miscellany*

Special Topic: 1930s Woolf



The literature of the 1930s is commonly characterized as anti-modernist
because of the prevalence of documentary realism, political purpose, and
autobiographically-inflected fiction.  Moreover, the canonical literature
of the decade is almost entirely authored by privileged young men, a
phenomenon explored by Virginia Woolf in “The Leaning Tower.”
Interestingly, however, the 1930s bears witness to Woolf’s most daring and
most commercially successful novels, *The Waves* and *The Years*
respectively.  With this context in mind: how does the modernist – and
feminist – Woolf align with the common understanding of the decade’s
literary figures and their production?  And, by extension, does – and if
so, how? – Woolf’s 1930s writing shed new light on a decade of literature
otherwise dominated by the Auden and Brideshead Generations?



This issue of *VWM* seeks contributions that explore Woolf’s relationship
to the canonical literature of the 1930s, such as but not limited to:
Auden’s poetry, Isherwood’s Berlin fiction, Auden’s and Isherwood’s plays,
Spender’s commentary, and Waugh’s comedic novels.  Equally, this issue also
seeks contributions examining resonances among Woolf’s 1930s writing and
non-canonical literature of the decade, especially literature written by
women.



In addition, this issue encourages responses to the following questions:
How does Woolf scholarship, if at all, engage with the critical study of
1930s literature?  How does Woolf’s modernism disrupt or complement the
critical understanding of 1930s literature?  What can Woolf’s late fiction
and essays reveal about the 1930s and its literature that the traditional
scholarly narrative conceals or overlooks?







Send submissions of no more than 2500 words to:

Erica Gene Delsandro ericadelsandro at gmail.com



Deadline for submission:

August 1, 2014
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