The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

2nd edition, with five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship.

Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources.a

Chronology; Introduction Susan Sellers; 1. Bloomsbury Andrew McNeillie; 2. Virginia Woolf's early novels: finding a voice Suzanne Raitt; 3. From Mrs Dalloway to The Waves: new elegy and lyric experimentalism Jane Goldman; 4. The novels of the 1930s and the impact of history Julia Briggs; 5. Virginia Woolf's essays Hermione Lee; 6. Virginia Woolf, modernism and modernity Michael Whitworth; 7. The socio-political vision of the novels David Bradshaw; 8. Woolf's feminism and feminism's Woolf Laura Marcus; 9. Virginia Woolf and sexuality Patricia Morgne Cramer; 10. Virginia Woolf, empire and race Helen Carr; 11. Virginia Woolf and visual culture Maggie Humm; 12. Virginia Woolf and the public sphere Melba Cuddy-Keane; Guide to further reading; Index.

This highly successful 2010 Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship on Woolf since the first edition was published. This second edition includes five new chapters, and the remaining chapters as well as the guide to further reading have all been fully updated.

Susan Sellers is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews.