Alice Staveley

Bio

Alice Staveley is Senior Lecturer in English at Stanford University where she directs the Honors Program, the Digital Humanities Minor, and the Writing Intensive Seminars in English. She is coauthor of Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities (Palgrave 2017) and coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing 1900-2020 (Edinburgh UP 2024). Her articles on Woolf and publishing have appeared in book collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf (Oxford UP 2021), and journals, including Book History, Cultural Analytics, and Modernism/modernity Print Plus.

Contributions

Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling and Digital Praxis

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Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse famously opens with six-year old James Ramsay, “sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army & Navy Stores.” [1] With the awkward dexterity of a young child, James carefully guides his scissors around “a picture of a refrigerator,” endowing the image “with heavenly bliss” under the loving but watchful gaze of his mother. The scene has long captured critical attention, but less so the consumerist allusion to a popular shop...

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New Hands on Old Papers: Modernist Publishing and the Archival Gaze

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Virginia Woolf records in her diary, September 22, 1925, clarion testimony to the transformational power of the Hogarth Press on her writing life. The avowed feminism of that final sentence has the force of proleptic aphorism; one woman’s victory over a male-dominated publishing industry might well become the rallying cry for later women printers and press owners. [2] But the future-making turn of the last sentence also eclipses the quiet force of the first: Woolf’s lament that she has sacrificed, willingly, her handwriting to the Hogarth Press.

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