Virginia Woolf and the materiality of theory : sex, animal, life / Derek Ryan.

Introduction : Virginia Woolf and the materiality of theory -- Materials for theory : digging granite and chasing rainbows -- Sexual difference in becoming : A room of one's own and To the lighthouse -- Queering Orlando and non/human desire -- The question of the animal in Flush -- Quantum reality and posthuman life : The waves.

Explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuze's philosophy and new materialist theories of 'sex', 'animal', and '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, Orland.

Introduction : Virginia Woolf and the materiality of theory -- Materials for theory : digging granite and chasing rainbows -- Sexual difference in becoming : A room of one's own and To the lighthouse -- Queering Orlando and non/human desire -- The question of the animal in Flush -- Quantum reality and posthuman life : The waves