The development of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism, 1930-1941

This thesis explores the development of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism. While contemporary scholars commonly observe that Woolf shifted her intellectual focus from modernist fiction to cultural criticism in the 1930s, there has been little sustained examination of why and how Woolf’s late cultural criticism evolved during 1930-1941. This thesis aims to contribute just such an investigation to field. My approach here fuses a feminist-historicist approach with the methodology of genetic criticism (critique génétique), a French school of textual studies that traces the evolution of literary works through their compositional histories. Reading across published and unpublished texts in Woolf’s oeuvre, my genetic, feminist-historicist analysis of Woolf emphasises that her late cultural criticism developed from her early feminist politics and dissident aesthetic stance as well as in response to the tempestuous historical circumstances of 1930-1941. As a prelude to my investigation of Woolf’s late output, Chapter 1 traces the genesis of Woolf’s cultural criticism in her early biographical writings. Chapter 2 then scrutinises Woolf’s late turn to cultural criticism through six essays she produced for Good Housekeeping in 1931. Chapter 3 surveys the evolution of Woolf’s critique of patriarchy in Three Guineas (1938) through the voluminous pre-publication documents that link this innovative feminist-pacifist pamphlet to The Years (1937). Finally, Chapter 4 outlines how Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), fuses fiction with cultural criticism to debate art’s social role in times of national crisis. The close relationship between formal and political radicalism in Woolf’s late cultural criticism, I conclude, undermines the integrity of viewing Woolf’s oeuvre in two distinct phases –the modernist 1920s and the socially-engaged 1930s – and suggests the danger of using such labels in wider narratives of interwar literature. Woolf’s late cultural criticism, this thesis argues, developed from rather than rejected her earlier experimentalism

Modernism, Exclusivity, and the Sophisticated Public of Harper's Bazaar (UK)

This article explores the reciprocal relationship between modernism and Harper’s Bazaar (UK) during 1929-35. In its early years this commercial fashion magazine exploited modernism’s perceived exclusivity and highbrow status to flatteringly construct its aspirational readers as culturally sophisticated. Whether printing modernist texts or artworks or parodying their experimental style, early Harper’s Bazaar (UK) promoted the reception of modernist writers and artists as high cultural celebrities, whose presence in the magazine enhanced its cultural value. While insisting on the exclusivity of modernist art and literature, Harper’s Bazaar (UK) simultaneously facilitated the mainstreaming of modernism by commodifying modernist texts and artworks and teaching its readers how to approach them. During the early 1930s, this article argues, Harper’s Bazaar (UK) helped to establish early narratives of modernism’s origins and development while marketing modernism as a desirable, high-end cultural product to its fashion-conscious audience

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“So, how should we edit the writings of Virginia Woolf?” ask Jane Goldman and Susan Sellers in their General Editors’ Preface to the new Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (xii). Woolf’s oeuvre certainly poses plenty of challenges to her editors. Her major works appear in variant first British and first American editions ― in several cases, including Mrs. Dalloway, published simultaneously on either side of the Atlantic ― while her surviving letters, diaries, reading notebooks, ..

Emergency Response Planning for Chemical Accident Hazards. Key points and conclusions for Seveso enforcement and implementation.

Emergency response combines with prevention and mitigation to form the risk management triad of control measures for reducing chemical accident risks. In fact, standard good practice dictates that appropriate emergency response measures are identified for every major accident scenario of a hazardous operation. Consistent with this philosophy, emergency planning has been taken on board as an essential component of the Seveso Directive since its inception in 1982. Within the current Seveso Directive (2012/18/EU), under Article 12, emergency planning for upper-tier sites is assigned as a direct obligation to both the operator (for internal emergency planning) and the authorities (for external emergency planning). These obligations present considerable challenges for the authorities, in particular, in verifying that internal emergency planning of each upper tier site is conducted in accordance with Seveso requirements and existing performance standard; that a parallel process for external emergency planning is established; and an appropriate strategy is defined to inform populations potentially at risk from the accident scenarios of concern. To bring improvements and consistency to Member State practices in this regard, the European Commission and the Irish Health and Safety Authority organised a workshop in 2012 for Seveso inspectors from EU and aligned countries to exchange information on challenges and successes in implementing emergency planning obligations. This publication summarizes the main conclusions and observations from the workshop discussions.JRC.G.5-Security technology assessmen

Convergence of the spectral measure of non normal matrices

We discuss regularization by noise of the spectrum of large random non-Normal matrices. Under suitable conditions, we show that the regularization of a sequence of matrices that converges in *-moments to a regular element $a$, by the addition of a polynomially vanishing Gaussian Ginibre matrix, forces the empirical measure of eigenvalues to converge to the Brown measure of $a$

'Housekeeping, Citizenship, and Nationhood in Good Housekeeping and Modern Home'

This article interrogates the framing of women as citizens through domestic work in two interwar women's magazines. Directed towards an aspirational lower-middle-class female audience, George Newnes's Modern Home identified homemaking as women's chief role and service to the nation and explicitly addressed its readers as English or British citizens. The National Magazine's Company's Good Housekeeping was solidly middle class in outlook with an undertone of internationalism in the interwar period. This magazine conversely insisted on women's citizenship both within and outside the home and urged its housekeeping readers to consider their values, responsibilities and potential power as citizens in international as well as national terms

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“So, how should we edit the writings of Virginia Woolf?” ask Jane Goldman and Susan Sellers in their General Editors’ Preface to the new Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (xii). Woolf’s oeuvre certainly poses plenty of challenges to her editors. Her major works appear in variant first British and first American editions ― in several cases, including Mrs. Dalloway, published simultaneously on either side of the Atlantic ― while her surviving letters, diaries, reading notebooks, ..

Writing great papers in high impact journals : an introduction for researchers

Taller per a autors realitzat a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona el 25 de novembre de 2015 i organitzat pel Servei de Biblioteque