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Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader presents twenty-eight essays and four poetic invocations delivered at the 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. The theme of the conference, the concept of "common(wealth)," addresses geographical, political, and imaginary spaces in which different readers and readings vie for primacy of place. The essays in this collection, including keynote addresses by Rosemary Ashton, Paul Delany, Christine Froula, Mary Ann Gillies, Sonita Sarker, and Jane Stafford, reflect upon "common(wealth)" as a constructed entity, one that necessarily embodies tensions between the communal and individual, traditional culture and emergent forms, indigenous people and colonial powers, and literary insiders and outsiders Introduction to Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) reader / Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies -- Poetic invocations / Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Cecily Nicholson, Jordan Abel -- Education and empire in Victorian Bloomsbury / Rosemary Ashton -- Synthesizing civilizations: Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations, and the inverse of imperialism, 1928-1933 / Wayne Chapman -- James Stephen's anti-slivery politics: a Wollfian inheritance / Jane de Gay --Networks of empire: Virginia Woolf and the travel writing of Emily Eden / Jeanne Dubino -- Of scrapbooks, war, and newspapers: Leslie Stephen's legacy / Beth Rigel Daugherty -- Leslie Stephen's science of (ecological) ethics / Catherine W. Hollis -- The death of a beautiful man: Rupert Brooke in memory and imagination / Paul Delany -- Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service: I had come to dislike imperialism / Lolly Ockerstrom -- Virginia Woolf in the British Commonwealth / Sonita Sarker -- Simplicity and art shades reign supreme: costume, collectibles, and aspiration in Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand / Jane Stafford -- Wealth in common: gifts, desire, and colonial commodities in Woolf and Mansfield / Kathryn Simpson -- On a view from the rims: Katherine Mansfield and Emily Carr / Mary Ann Gillies -- London callilng: Una Marson in the colonial London scene / Elizabeth F. Evans -- Modernism across the Commonwealth: Virginia Woolf's and Arundhati Roy's critique of empire / Elsa Högberg -- From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes: an Australian Virginia Woolf / Melinda Smith -- War, peace, internationalism: Bloomsbury legacies / Christine Froula -- Caterpillars of the Commonwealth unite: photography and trauma in three Guineas / Ira Nadel -- Drawn from our island history: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the politics of pageantry / Erica Delsandro -- A bloodless and pernicious pest: The middlebrow's common man in the essays of Virginia Woolf / Martin Winquist -- Woolf's troubled and troubling relationship to race: the long reach of the white arm of imperialism / Lisa Coleman -- Woolfian seamarks: commodified women and the racial other on the shores of empire / Patrizia Muscogiuri -- Documenting Facism in three Guineas and The handmaid's tale: an examination of Woolf's textual notes and scrap books and Atwood's Historical notes / Vara Neverow -- Proportion, conversion, transition: war trauma and sites of healing in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Kristin Czarnecki -- Preserving our history of reading Woolf: the common wealth of our past and future ; Karen Levenback -- Adventures in common: investing with Woolfs and "Securitas" / Dian F. Gillespie -- Printing "Prelude": Virginia Woolf's typsetting apprenticship and Katherine Mansfield on "Other people's presses": / Leslie Kathleen Hankins -- The Hogarth Press, digital humanities and collaboration: introducing the Modernist Archives Publishing Project / Nicola Wilson, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Alice Staveley, Helen Southworth, and Clair Battershill -- Woolf blogging, blogging Woolf: using the Web to create a common wealth of global scholars-readers / Paula Maggio
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