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(2007) Palgrave advances in Virginia Woolf studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
What strikes one first about bibliographic approaches to Virginia Woolf is how few there are. The Roe and Sellers' Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (2000) has essays that signal their focus on "history", "modernism", "realism", "post-Impressionism", "feminism", and "psychoanalysis", but nothing dedicated specifically to the bibliographic. Nor does the bibliographic figure as a category in Daugherty and Pringle's Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To The Lighthouse (2001), nor in Berman and Goldman's Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds (2001), where there are categories such as "Gender, Sexuality, Feminism", "Orientalism/ Colonialism", "Cultural and Material", but nothing on bibliography. Yet there has been a steady stream of bibliographic work. Charles G. Hoffman wrote a series of articles in 1968 and 1969 that initiated study of the drafts, but these short pieces just offered a taste of what was there, and it would be some time before there were more comprehensive studies. The focus in the 1970s and 1980s, and indeed into the 1990s, was in getting the work out. It was as if Woolf was having another publishing career, this time of pre-publication materials. Now, in the early 2000s, Woolf studies seems poised for a new, multifarious phase of bibliographic criticism. But it has been a long time coming.
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Bishop, E. I. (2007). Bibliographic approaches, in Palgrave advances in Virginia Woolf studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125-142.
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