Patricia Laurence
PublicationsBOOKS
Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003) Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. It then expands into a study of parallel literary communities: Bloomsbury in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. The Reading of Silence: Virginia Woolf in the English Tradition (Stanford University Press, 1992)
In reading Woolf’s many silences--psychological, social, historical, philosophical--through a study of her narrative techniques, this book establishes a new rhetoric of silence. Until now, poststructuralist and feminist critics have concentrated on explicating the role of the “speaking subject” in texts, ignoring those who are marginal or silent. This book infuses the silences of women with a new psychic and narrative life. MONOGRAPH
Julian Bell: The Violent Pacifist (Cecil Woolf, Bloomsbury Heritage Series, 2006) Julian Bell, the nephew of Virginia Woolf, embodied the contradictions of his generation in 1930s England. In 1935, he he had urged young men to resist war even if accused on being "unpatriotic"; in 1937 under the political force of Fascism, he and his generation found that their "peace mind" had grown into a "war mind." He enlisted as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War where he died at the age of 29 in 1937, a "violent finish in hot blood." He had become "a violent pacifist." ARTICLE
“Beyond the Little Red Book” (The Nation, Sept/4/11, 2000) This article discusses the swift evolution of Chinese fiction, particularly that of Chinese women writers, since the death of Mao in 1976. TRANSLATION Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China. Chinese Translation. Shanghai: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing Company, 2008. MONOGRAPHS Issues in World Literature, co-editor with Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright. New York: Harpercollins, 1993. Virginia Woolf in/ Long Wind: Mediating History and Literature in Chinese and American Universities, editor, CUNY-Taiyuan Educational Exchange (fall 2005). ARTICLES “The Intimate Spaces of Community: J.M. Keynes and the Arts,” History of Political Economy (spring 2007) “Part of America is Missing: Literature Anthologies in the Peoples Republic of China” Long Wind (summer 2006), 1-5. “Biography and Fiction” Legendaria (Rome), November 2004, 7-9. “Catherine Bertini Meets GERWUN” Equal Time: Equal Rights for Women at the UN (Spring, 2003). “Bloomsburied in China: Hong Ying’s ‘K’ ” The Nation, April 4, 2003 . “Beyond the Little Red Book: Literature in China Today” The Nation (Sept. 4-11, 2001), 31-37. “A Rope to Throw the Reader: Reading the Diverse Rhythms of To the Lighthouse” in Approaches to Teaching Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, eds. Beth Rigel Dougherty and Mary Beth Pringle. New York: Modern Language Association (March 2001), 93-101. “Collapsing Inside and Outside: Reading ‘The Friend of the Friends’” in The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave: Essays on the Short Fiction of Henry James eds. Brooke Horvath & Joseph Dewey, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2002. pp. 117-125. “Virginia Woolf in/ “Holding Her Pen Like a Broom’: Virginia Woolf’s Anxieties about Working Class Women” Etudes Brittaniques Contemporains (Automne 1999), 5-18. “In Memoriam, East & West: Dadie Rylands & Xiao Qian” Virginia Woolf Miscellany(spring 1999), 2. “A Writing Couple: Shared Ideology in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and Leonard Woolf’s Quack, Quack!” in Peace, Politics and Women around Bloomsbury, ed. Wayne Chapman, New York: Pace UP, 1998, 125-143. “Oral History Across the Disciplines: Roundtable Discussion,” Oral History Association Newsletter, fall 1998, 3-12. “The China Letters: Vanessa Bell, Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua” South Carolina Review (spring 1997) 122-131. “Virginia Woolf and the East,” Bloomsbury Heritage Series pamphlet. London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1995, 1-22. “Third Wave Feminism: the Joining of University and Community Women,” Spring 1996; “Feminism as a Tiger: Interviewing Shanghai Women Writers,” Fall 1995; “The Collective Voice of Women,” Spring 1995, “After Winning a Room of Your Own: Women’s Studies in the Academy,” Fall 1994; in Center for the Study of Women Newsletter, CUNY Graduate Center. “Response to Gerald Graff,” College English (October 1995): 731-733. “James Dickey’s Puella in Flight,” South Carolina Review (Spring 1994) 2:62, 61-71. “Silence as a Ritual of Truth in Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf,” in Listening to Silences, ed. Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Elaine Hedges, Oxford University Press, 1993, 156-167. “Reading and Writing About World Literature,”(co-author with Sarah Bird Wright) in HarperCollins World Reader, ed. M.A. Caws and Christopher Prendergast, New York: HarpercCollins, 1993. “Issues in World Literature: Introduction for Students, Introduction for Instructors:” (co-author with Sarah Bird Wright) in Issues in World Literature, New York: HarperCollins, December 1993. “Symposium on Basic Writing, Conflict and Struggle, and the legacy of Mina Shaughnessy,” College English, 53:4 (December 1993), 44-47. “The Vanishing Site of Mina Shaughnessy’s Errors and Expectations,” Journal of Basic Writing, Fall 1993. “Virginia Woolf and Music,” Virginia Woolf Miscellany, spring 1992: 4-5. “The Reading of Rhythm in Virginia Woolf,” Virginia Woolf Miscellanies: Proceedings. New York: Pace University Press, 1992. “The Facts and Fugue of War: From Three Guineas to Between the Acts” in Virginia Woolf and War: The Fiction, the Myth, the Reality, ed. Mark Hussey, New York: Syracuse UP, 1991: 225-246 “City College’s Family Narrative Collection,” Resource (1989) 4-8 |
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