Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf’s Works xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf
8. 1. ‘What a curse these translators are!’ Woolf’s Early German Reception 23
9. 2. The Translation and Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926–89) 42
10. 3. The Reception of Virginia Woolf and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Australia 62
11. 4. Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo Channels Virginia Woolf 79
12. 5. From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible Conversations with Virginia Woolf 96
13. 6. Three Guineas and the Cassandra Project – Christa Wolf’s Reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War 115
14. 7. Virginia Woolf’s Literary Heritage in Russian Translations and Interpretations 132
15. 8. Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Writing in Estonian Translation Culture 152
16. 9. Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A Feminist Paratextual Reading of Translation Strategies 166
17. 10. Solid and Living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance 183
18. 11. Tracing A Room of One’s Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929–2019 199
19. Part II: Woolf’s Legacies in Literature
20. 12. Virginia Woolf’s Enduring Presence in Uruguay 223
21. 13. Virginia Woolf’s Reception and Impact on Brazilian Women’s Literature 246
22. 14. English and Mexican Dogs: Spectres of Traumatic Pasts in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and María Luisa Puga’s Las razones del lago 267
23. 15. A New Perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto’s Novels and A Room of One’s Own 282
24. 16. Rooms of Their Own: A Cross-Cultural Voyage between Virginia Woolf and the Contemporary Chinese Woman Writer Chen Ran 297
25. 17. In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women’s Poetry from China 314
26. 18. Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Legacy to Contemporary Polish Literature 332
27. 19. Clarissa Dalloway’s Global Itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney 354
28. 20. Virginia Woolf and French Writers: Contemporaneity, Idolisation, Iconisation 371
29. 21. The Dream Work of a Nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin 387
30. 22. Great Poets Do Not Die: Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as Metaphor for Contemporary Biofiction 399
31. 23. The Woolf Girl: A Mother–Daughter Story with Virginia Woolf and Lidia Yuknavitch 412
32. Index 428