Chapter 16 The Ghostly Pencil

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Note on the Cover x
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Series Preface xiii
7. Abbreviations xiv
8. Notes on Contributors xv
9. Introduction: Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter 1
10. Part I Approaches to Objects, Things and Matter in Woolf
11. Chapter 1 Virginia Woolf and Modernist New Materialism 27
12. Chapter 2 Jacob’s Im/material Form 43
13. Chapter 3 Inanimacy: Virginia Woolf’s Materialisms 62
14. Chapter 4 ‘Of being herself invisible’: Object, Thing, Matter and Use in Mrs Dalloway and Three Guineas 84
15. Chapter 5 A Toy Boat of Her Own: Gender, Play and Education in Virginia Woolf’s Writings 104
16. Chapter 6 Cotton, Race, Embodiment and ‘the thing itself’ in Woolf 122
17. Chapter 7 Virginia Woolf’s Misuse of ‘Cotton Wool’ in ‘A Sketch of the Past’: Writing the Wound 141
18. Part II Object Experiments with Woolf
19. Chapter 8 Object Lessons 163
20. Chapter 9 Material Reading: Letterpress Printing with Woolf 173
21. Chapter 10 The Life of Monday or Tuesday 182
22. Chapter 11 More Surfaces: A Monologue, or the Queer Interiorities of a Gramophone 187
23. Chapter 12 six 193
24. Chapter 13 Spider Kingdom 197
25. Part III A Collection of Woolfian Things
26. Chapter 14 The Jug in the Borderland 209
27. Chapter 15 ‘Enjoying this immortal rhythm’: Woolf and the Gramophone 221
28. Chapter 16 The Ghostly Pencil 232
29. Chapter 17 ‘tremb tremulous fitful’: Missed Encounters in Mirrors 242
30. Chapter 18 The ‘Vanished’ Walrus Pen-Wiper: Waste and the Animal Object 254
31. Chapter 19 Pointz Hall as Hyperobject: Woolf’s Deep Geological History in Between the Acts 266
32. Afterword: Upheavals of Matter 277
33. Index 291