[Vwoolf] Woolf's "On Being Ill" revisited in the times of corona virus

George Entenman ge at entenman.net
Tue Mar 24 23:23:21 EDT 2020


For those who like ASCII versions of books, you can find *On Being Ill
*in Australian
Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500221h.html#ch3>.

- ge

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:48 PM Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> And a second second—I am beginning our discussion of *Mrs Dalloway* in my
> modernist lit class in about an hour and have already posted a section of
> Elizabeth Outka’s book to the course shell for them to consider!
>
> Stay safe everyone!
>
>
>
> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Madelyn
> Detloff via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:31 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] Woolf's "On Being Ill" revisited in the times of
> corona virus
>
>
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I hope you all are keeping as well as can be.  I’d like to second Jane’s
> recommendation of Elizabeth Outka’s new book.  I have been thinking about
> it quite a bit in the past few weeks.
>
>
>
> Take care,
>
> Madelyn
>
> Madelyn Detloff
>
> Professor and Chair, English
>
> Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies
>
> Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad. Please excuse automiscorrections.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2020, at 12:26 PM, Jane Marie Garrity via Vwoolf <
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>  Hi Laura & all,
>
> Thanks for these links. I’d also like to draw people’s attention to
> Elizabeth Outka’s wonderful book, _Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic
> and Interwar Literature_ (Columbia UP 2019). It’s not only timely, but is a
> terrific read—enjoy!
>
> Best wishes everyone,
>
> Jane
>
>
>
>
>
> Jane Garrity
> Associate Professor of English
> Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
> University of Colorado at Boulder
> 226 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0226
> Jane.Garrity at Colorado.Edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2020, at 3:06 AM, Laura Cernat via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Woolfians,
>
>
>
> With Belgium under lockdown for the second week now, my colleagues from
> the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts are looking for ways to find literary
> resources that explore topics like illness and epidemics from a diversity
> of angles. They've set up a blog called "Coronameron", where professors and
> students have been contributing bits about epidemics in the history of
> literature. You might enjoy some of the posts (
> https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/literatuurwetenschap/coronameron).
>
>
>
> I participated with a small piece about Woolf's "On Being Ill". I tried to
> follow the advice that has circulated on the listserv lately and I
> foregrounded Woolf's own words rather than trying to burden the text with
> references and complicated commentary. It is, of course, just a
> popularization piece, so don't expect much novelty, but maybe it's a good
> invitation to revisit the text. Here's the link:
>
>
> https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/literatuurwetenschap/coronameron/suggestions-suggesties/onbeingillvirginiawoolf
>
>
>
> May your passion for Woolf keep you strong in these times. Stay at home
> and keep up the good reading & writing!
>
>
>
> With best wishes of health and strength,
>
>
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> Laura Cernat (Kupferschmidt)
>
> PhD student, KU Leuven, Department of Literary Studies
>
> FWO doctoral fellow
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Vwoolf mailing list
> Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Vwoolf mailing list
> Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
>
> _______________________________________________
> Vwoolf mailing list
> Vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf
>


-- 
George Entenman   http://george.entenman.name  +1-919-636-5496
« Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo »
<http://os-novos-baianos.musicas.mus.br/letras/122204/>
جورج  من  قفصة
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/vwoolf/attachments/20200324/520fe6d2/attachment.html>


More information about the Vwoolf mailing list