Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction. Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory; 1. Materials for Theory: Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows; 2. Sexual Difference in Becoming: A Room of One's Own and To the Lighthouse; 3. Queering Orlando and Non/Human Desire; 4. The Question of the Animal in Flush: A Biography; 5. Quantum Philosophy-Physics and Posthuman Life: The Waves; Afterword. Contemporary Interceptions; Bibliography.
Derek Ryan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter. He is co-editor of Contradictory Woolf (Clemson University Digital Press, 2012) and a forthcoming special issue of Deleuze Studies on Deleuze, Woolf and Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). Current projects include a book he is writing on Animal Theory.
Derek Ryan revitalizes theoretical approaches to reading modernist literature [and] contributes rich and timely readings - Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory demonstrates an impressive command of contemporary theories of materiality as well as an intimate knowledge of Woolf's novels and essays - a welcome interruption of critical trends that would dispense with theory. - Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 20, 2014 Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory is a brilliant romp through the venues of contemporary philosophical approaches to literature - It is clear that Derek Ryan is a harbinger of a new wave in Woolf studies, attentive to past scholarship but dedicated to the proposition that the union of Woolf's own theorizing with a whole new range of philosophical approaches will produce a more nuanced and refined appreciation of life as we know it. - Elisa K. Sparks, Clemson University, South Carolina Review 47.1, 2014
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