Reconsiders Virginia Woolf s work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution duality and contradictionGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup ISBN 9780748693931 ISBN 9780748693948 These 11 newly commissioned essays represent the evolution or coevolution of Woolf studies in the early 21st century Divided into 5 parts Self and Identity Language and Translation Culture and Commodification Human Animal and Nonhuman and Gender Sexuality and Multiplicity the essays represent the most recent scholarship on the subjective provisional and contingent nature of Woolf s work The expert contributors consider unstable constructions of self and identity and language and translation from multiple angles including shifting textualities culture and the marketplace critical animal studies and discourses that fracture and revise gender and sexuality Key Features Extends existing critical work that considers a multiplicity of constructions of Virginia Woolf Demonstrates original and diverse ways of reading this canonical and contradictory authorExplores multiple meanings related to the conjoined fused connected and evolving nature of Woolf studiesConsiders new configurations new pairings and new ways of placing ideas in tension around Woolf s work for a postmodern postmillennial age