[Vwoolf] announcing the publication of *Virginia Woolf and Poetry*

[Anne Fernald]

CONGRATULATIONS, Emily! Very exciting. An important topic dear to my heart.

It's wonderful to have good news of smart work happening in the world,

Anne

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:53 PM Emily Kopley via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm happy to announce that my first book, *Virginia Woolf and Poetry
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://global.oup.com/academic/product/virginia-woolf-and-poetry-9780198850861?cc=us&lang=en&__;!!KGKeukY!nioOcWR0-2jgNQmYUC-j72g3Bm3TYjIjLay_JTiVBAxzhxSgj1fnGY-8unRYiTHybEk$>*,
> is out today (June 10) from Oxford UP, in a happy coincidence with the
> first day of the annual Woolf conference. I'm attaching here a flyer that
> offers a discount; the discount count can be used by anyone and never
> expires.
>
> I argue that Woolf's career was shaped by her impression of the conflict
> between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between
> masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free. In large part for
> feminist reasons, Woolf promoted the triumph of the novel over poetry, even
> as she adapted some of poetry's techniques for the novel in order to
> portray the inner life. Woolf considered poetry *the* rival form to the
> novel. A monograph on Woolf's sense of genre rivalry thus offers a thorough
> reinterpretation of the motivations and aims of her canonical work. Drawing
> on unpublished archival material and little-known publications, the book
> combines biography, book history, formal analysis, genetic criticism,
> source study, and feminist literary history. Woolf's attitude towards
> poetry is framed within contexts of wide scholarly interest: the decline of
> the lyric poem, the rise of the novel, the gendered associations with these
> two genres, elegy in prose and verse, and the history of English Studies. *Virginia
> Woolf and Poetry* makes three important contributions. It clarifies a
> major prompt for Woolf's poetic prose. It exposes the genre rivalry that
> was creatively generative to many modernist writers. And it details how
> holding an ideology of a genre can shape literary debates and aesthetics.
>
> The Woolf community has been a huge source of intellectual help and
> personal joy as I worked on this book. Thank you.
>
> Best,
> Emily
>
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