1st Edition
Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama
Introduction: ‘I Have Been Dead and Yet Am Now Alive Again’: Catching the Phantom
Biography, fiction and biofiction: from ‘bastard’ to ‘hybrid’
Visions and designs
Postmodernist truthful (mis)representations
From truthful fictions to travesties of truth
Goals and perspectives
Chapter I: Bioplay(giarism)s
The ‘little cut-and-paste job’
‘The play’s the thing’
Virginia’s feminist companions
The last song of the nightingale
Virginia and Vita: a year in love
Chapter II: Detecting Woolf
In the shadow of WWI: Virginia as a feminist sleuth
Who killed Virginia Woolf? The Cambridge Five!
Chapter III: Virginia’s Daughters
Virginia’s long shadow
Virginia’s biological progeny
Chapter IV: Vanessa and Virginia
A tale of two sisters
Vanessa and her sister: ‘twinned always’
Vanessa and Virginia: ‘psychically Siamese’
Vanessa and Virginia: a biofictional spin-off
Chapter V: Polarity, Pairs, Peers and Parallelisms
Riding the ‘Dark Mare’ at ‘sixty’s gate’
Adeline and Virginia
Mandril and the marmoset
Chapter VI: Biofictive Mirrors: Clarissa Woolf / Virginia Dalloway
A cameo appearance
Mrs Woolf, Mrs Dalloway and Mrs Brown: death, birth and survival
Chapter VII: Bloomsberries Reimagined
Lytton and Virginia
Variable geometries: squares, circles and triangles
Bloomsbury legacies
Conclusion: Posthumous Lives: ‘I Am Made and Remade Continually’
Biographical Woolfs and fictional Virginias
A summing up of Woolf’s afterlives
Biofiction as critical interpretation
Virginia Woolf legend: keeping the myth alive
Biography
Monica Latham is a Professor of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She obtained a PhD in 2003 from Université de Nancy, France. Her thesis analysed the genesis of Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, and was entitled ‘De Melymbrosia (1908) à The Voyage Out (1915): l’invention allotropique du projet woolfien d’écriture’. Since then, Latham has published over sixty articles on modernist and postmodernist authors in many international journals and academic publications. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015). She is the co-editor of the series ‘Book Practices and Textual Itineraries’, ‘Biofiction Studies’ and ‘Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks’.
