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<HR><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-1>Over 50 years after her
death, the writings of Virginia Woolf are a source of continuing power
and ever-increasing influence. Recognized in her own time and country as
one of the most significant of the Modernists, Woolf has achieved a stature,
in the late twentieth century, of international prominence. Admired first
in the era of New Criticism as one of the superb formalist writers of fiction,
Woolf's equal relevance to historical and materialist issues became acknowledged
largely because of the feminist critics of the 70s and 80s.</FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-1>In the nineties, Woolf scholarship
has expanded to include a great variety of interests: historical and cultural
studies; feminist and gender studies; postcolonial studies; language and
genre studies; and studies with a multitude of other foci such as influence
and intertextuality, global reception, constructions of modernism and postmodernism,
to name but a few. In recent years, one of the most productive fields of
inquiry has involved scholarly work on original manuscripts and variant
editions. Despite the ever-growing catalogue of writers in the large corpus
of English literature, the writings of Virginia Woolf give every evidence
of providing a continuing meeting place for scholars and readers around
the world.</FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-1>The International Virginia
Woolf Society is devoted to encouraging and facilitating the scholarly
study of, critical attention to, and general interest in, the work and
career ofVirginia Woolf, and to facilitate ways in which all people interested
in her writings--scholars, critics, teachers, students, and common readers--may
learn from one another, meet together, contact each other, and help one
another. Find out more about our organization, activities, and Virginia
Woolf herself by following the links below.</FONT></FONT>
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