[Vwoolf] To the Lighthouse: edition with UK text distributed in US?

[Edward Mendelson]

I enormously admire Alison Bechdel's books and have been reading them 
forever. I only wish her cover illustration to To the Lighthouse had 
been printed somewhere else, and not shaping anyone's perception of the 
book by being printed on the cover. I don't think my students have much 
to worry about on LGBTQIA+ issues: I'm teaching two seminars next year: 
one on Virginia Woolf, the other on W. H. Auden.

On 8/2/2024 1:13 PM, Valérie Favre wrote:
>
> Dear Professor Mendelson,dear all,
>
> I'm glad Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow were able to provide a useful 
> answer to this query.
>
> I'm afraid mine may be slightly off topic, and yet, reading that 
> anyone, including a distinguished professor of literature who has 
> certainly been reading and teaching Woolf's oeuvre for decades now, 
> may think themselves “saved from Alison Bechdel” prompted the 
> following thoughts.
>
> Many Woolf scholars and common readers on this list surely know that 
> Alison Bechdel's graphic novels are actually being banned from 
> libraries across the US because of the conservative backlash which 
> notably targets LGBTQI+ authors. Many of you may also know that 
> Bechdel surely is one of the most talented graphic novelists of her 
> generation, and that she takes an essential, and necessary, part in 
> enforcing Virginia Woolf’s literary and queer heritage; this, most 
> notably, in her second graphic memoir /Are You My Mother? –/ a 
> thought-provoking and moving reflection on non-patrilineality, and on 
> literary and feminist filiations which testifies to how generative 
> Woolf's “thinking back through our mothers” paradigm still is in the 
> 21st century.
>
> I ask you to consider what is lost in eschewing Bechdel’s 
> participation in Woolf studies; consider the signals you send to 
> LGBTQIA+ aligned students and scholars; consider the assistance you 
> are giving the effort to ban Bechdel, even unwillingly. Can an 
> artist’s interpretation of a literary classic – whether one deems it 
> successful or not – be worse than the violence of “being saved” from 
> queer literature?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Valérie Favre
>
> Valérie Favre <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://perso.univ-paris1.fr/vfavre__;!!KGKeukY!0qiKrFXB-dffAVmhtFJKgCjuQvfRi3qMbBQEMQBdMt58STJATTjDSV1bFrx72QV0pqISqjFvPHbftFXZeWv95rN87MYs6HdP8D0$ >(elle/ielle—she/they)
>
> Maîtresse de conférences en études anglophones/Associate Professor in 
> English
> Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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>
>
> Le ven. 2 août 2024 à 18:33, Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf 
> <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> a écrit :
>
>     It is indeed - and seems to have been available here only since
>     2023, so I didn’t know it was available the last time I looked.
>
>     Thank you. Saved from Alison Bechdel!
>
>     > On Aug 2, 2024, at 11:52 AM, <mhussey at verizon.net>
>     <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
>     >
>     > Is the Oxford World's Classics edition edited by David Bradshaw not
>     > available in the US (I haven't checked!)
>     >
>
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