1st Edition

Virginia Woolf in the French Imagination

By Monica Latham Copyright 2027
324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores a wide array of literary productions authored by French-speaking writers in which Virginia Woolf appears as a biographical subject or a fictional character. The ensemble of bio/fictional narratives reveals how Woolf’s ideas and ideals resonate with French authors and common readers; they inform us about Woolf’s iconicity and the universal values she stood for, which mirror... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Biographoid Portraits: Virginia Woolf Made in France

Chapter 2: Virginia Woolf: Idol and Icon

Chapter 3: A (Bio)Graphic Woolf

Chapter 4: Visits on French Soil

Chapter 5: Specters of Virginia and the Ghost of Woolf

Chapter 6: Conversations Beyond the Grave

Chapter 7: Double ‘Double V’

Chapter 8: The Birth of the Writer and The Death of the Author

Conclusion: Virginia Woolf: A ‘Biografictionable’ Literary and Cultural Figure

Biography

Monica Latham is Professor in British Literature at Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. She is a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism and has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015), Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (2021) and Dans l’atelier de Virginia Woolf (2025).