VIRGINIA WOOLF MISCELLANY: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND SPIRITUALITY
The Virginia Woolf Miscellany prepares to publish a new issue about Virginia Woolf and Spirituality. We welcome literary and cultural criticism, as well as essays from other approaches dealing with any aspect of the topic. We are seeking essays (up to 2000 words) about any topic related to Virginia Woolf and spirituality. Possible topics include:
Virginia Woolf and atheism
Religion and spirituality in the Bloomsbury Group
Matriarchy and religion
Woolf and disbelief: Bertrand Russell
Feminism as a form of religious community
Religion in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Spirituality and nature
Sacred space
Spirituality and the feminine
Mental illness and spirituality
Myth and ritual
Rationalism, Materialism, Positivism and Spiritualism
Reactions to 19th century thought
Unanimism and Woolf
Spirituality and Jane Harrison
Scapegoats and spirituality in Virginia Woolf
The transgression of religious conventions in
Woolfs writings
Spirituality and purity/impurity
Parodia sacra
Carnival and religion
Woolf and Judaism
Spirituality and Fascism
Avant-garde art and spirituality
Impressionism and spirituality
The Great War and spirituality (mourning, grief,
recovery)
Fertility and vegetation deities
Christianity and old religions
Spirituality in Woolfs biography
Forms of Irrationality
Subjectivity
Spiritual literary forms and techniques
Indian philosophy, Hinduism, Tantrism
Shamanism
Primitivism and images of the primitive
Moments of Being
Mysticism
The mystical aspects of modernism
Woolfs readings of religious and spiritual texts
Essays on additional related topics are also welcome. Please send 100-word proposals to both Dra. Isabel Mͺ Andrιs Cuevas and Dr. Amy Smith by January 30, 2010, at the following email addresses: amycoli@gmail.com and iandres@ugr.es. Contributors will be notified of acceptance in mid-spring.
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