Table Of ContentThe Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe
The Athlone Critical Traditions Series:
The Reception of British Authors in Europe
Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Forthcoming volumes in the series include:
The Reception of James Joyce in Europe
Edited by Geert Lernout
The Reception of William Beckford in Europe
Edited by John Wilton-Ely and Elinor Shaffer
The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
Edited by Peter De Voogd and John Neubauer
The Athlone Critical Traditions Series:
The Reception of British Authors in Europe
Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer
School of Advanced Study, University of London
The Reception of Virginia Woolf
in Europe
Edited by Mary Ann Caws
and Nicola Luckhurst
continuum
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First published 2002
© Mary Ann Caws, Nicola Luckhurst and contributors 2002
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-8264-5588-3 (hardback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe/edited by Mary Ann Caws and Nicola
Luckhurst.
p. cm. — (The Athlone critical traditions series: the reception of British authors
in Europe)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8264-5588-3
1. Woolf, Virginia, 1882—1941—Criticism and interpretation—History. 2. Woolf,
Virginia, 1882—1941—Appreciation—Europe. 3. English fiction—Appreciation—
Europe. I. Caws, Mary Ann. II. Luckhurst, Nicola. III. Series.
PR6045.O72 Z8644 2001
823'.912—dc21 2001028836
Typeset by BookEns Ltd., Royston, Herts.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
Series Editor's Preface ix
Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements xii
List of Contributors xiii
Preface: Virginia Woolf s Crossings xix
Mary Ann Caws
Timeline: European Reception of Virginia Woolf xxi
Paul Barnaby
Abbreviations xxxvii
Introduction 1
Nicola Luckhurst
French
1 Virginia Woolf among Writers and Critics: The French Intellectual
Scene 19
Pierre-Eric Villeneuve
2 The French Reception of Woolf: An Etat Present of Etudes
Woolfiennes 39 39
Carole Rodier
3 Translating Virginia Woolf into French 54
Franfoise Pellan
4 A Virginia Woolf, with a French Twist 60
Mary Ann Caws
German
5 The German Reception and Criticism of Virginia Woolf:
A Survey of Phases and Trends in the Twentieth Century 68
Ansgar and Vera Ntinning
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6 Installing Modernism: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in
the German Democratic Republic 102
Wolfgang Wicht
Polish
7 From Silence to a Polyphony of Voices: Virginia Woolf s
Reception in Poland 127
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
Swedish
8 'Literature is no one's private ground': The Critical and
Political Reception of Virginia Woolf in Sweden 148
Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstrom
Danish
9 Waves of Influence: The Danish Reception of Virginia Woolf 165
Ida Klitgdrd
Greek
10 'The Country of the Moon' and the Woman of'Interior
Monologue': Virginia Woolf in Greece 186
Katerina K. Kitsi-Mitakou
Italian
11 The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Italy 200
Sergio Perosa
Spanish
12 'A gaping mouth, but no words': Virginia Woolf Enters the
Land of Butterflies 218
Laura Maria Lojo Rodriguez
13 The Emerging Voice: A Review of Spanish Scholarship on
Virginia Woolf 247
Alberto Ldzaro
14 Virginia Woolf and the Search for Symbolic Mothers in Modern
Spanish Fiction: The Case of Tres mujeres
Maria Jose Gdmez Fuentes 263
Galician
15 'A fastness of their own': The Galician Reception of Virginia
Woolf 281
Manuela Palados
Catalan
16 Modernism, Nationalism and Feminism: Representations of
Virginia Woolf in Catalonia 296
Jacqueline A. Hurtley
Contents vii
Portuguese
17 The Portuguese Reception of Virginia Woolf 312
Grafa Abranches
History of Publishing
18 The European Dimensions of the Hogarth Press 328
Laura Marcus
Bibliography 357
Index 431
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Series Editor's Preface
The reception of British authors in Britain has in good part been studied;
indeed, it forms our literary history. By contrast, the reception of British
authors in Europe has not been examined in any systematic, long-term or
large-scale way.
It is the aim of this Series to initiate and forward the study of the reception
of British authors in Continental Europe, or, as we would now say, the rest of
Europe. This is part of the grander task of considering the history and culture
of Europe as a whole, rather than as isolated national histories with a narrow
national perspective. The perspectives of other nations greatly add to our
understanding of individual contributors to that history. The history of the
reception of British authors extends our knowledge of their capacity to
stimulate and to call forth new responses, not only in their own disciplines but
in wider fields and to diverse publics in a variety of historical circumstances.
Often these responses provide quite unexpected and enriching insights into
our own history, politics and culture. Individual works and personalities take
on new dimensions and facets. They may also be subject to enlightening
critiques. Our knowledge of British writers is simply incomplete and
inadequate without these reception studies.
By 'authors' we intend writers in any field whose works have been
recognized as making a contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of
our society. Thus the Series includes literary figures, such as Byron and
Virginia Woolf, philosophers such as Francis Bacon and David Hume,
historians and political figures such as Edmund Burke, and scientists such as
Charles Darwin, whose works have had a broad impact on thinking in every
field. In some cases individual works of the same author have dealt with
different subjects, each with virtually its own reception history; so Burke's
Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) was instantaneously translated and
moulded thinking on the power struggles in the Europe of his own day; his
youthful 'Essay on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime' exerted a
powerful influence on aesthetic thought and the practice of writing and
remains a seminal work for certain genres of fiction; his only just collected
parliamentary speeches on, for example, the Indian question will now be re-
examined in the light of the subsequent history of the European presence
overseas and of current attitudes towards it.
The research project examines the ways in which selected authors have
been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed and discussed on the
