This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy
and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman
life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In
what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of
materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary
theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is
theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she
makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human
and nonhuman, life and matter. Through close readings of texts
including To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The
Waves, Flush, and 'Sketch of the Past', he details the fresh
insights Woolf provides into issues concerning the natural world,
sexual difference, sexuality, animality, and life itself. Ryan
opens up Woolf studies to new theoretical paradigms by placing
Woolf in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze - who cites her modernist
aesthetics as exemplary of some of his most important philosophical
concepts - as well as eminent contemporary theorists including Rosi
Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Jane Bennett, all of
whom have influenced the recent critical turn towards new
materialisms. Locating theory within Woolf's writing as well as
locating Woolf within theory, Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of
Theory: Sex, Animal, Life brings her modernism firmly into to the
foreground of current debates in literary studies, feminist
philosophy, queer theory, animal studies and posthumanities.
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