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Mark Hussey

Pace University, English, Emeritus

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My biography of Clive Bell is out in paperback (2022) and in January 2023 Edinburgh UP publishes my edition of his 'Selected Letters'

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Queer Bloomsbury, contributors

by Brenda S Helt and Mark Hussey

Table of Contents: Editors' Introduction, Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt; Part 1: Ground-break... more Table of Contents:
Editors' Introduction, Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt;

Part 1: Ground-breaking Essays;
Introduction to Carolyn Heilbrun's 'The Bloomsbury Group', 1968, Brenda R. Silver;
The Bloomsbury Group, Carolyn Heilbrun;
'Bloomsbury Bashing' Revisited; Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties, Christopher Reed;
'Camp Sites' Revisited; Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury, George Piggford;
'Redecorating the International Economy' Revisited; Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods [abridged], Bill Maurer;
Passionate Debates on 'Odious Subjects': Bisexuality and Woolf's Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity [abridged], Brenda Helt;

Part 2: New Essays;
The Bloomsbury Love Triangle, Regina Marler;
Duncan Grant and Charleston's Queer Arcadia, Darren Clarke;
Nailed: Lytton Strachey's Jesus Camp, Todd Avery;
‘[T]here were so many things I wanted to do & didn't’: The Queer Potential of Carrington's Life and Art, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina;
Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury's Wittgenstein, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. and Madelyn Detloff;
Deviant Desires and the Queering of Leonard Woolf, Elyse Blankley;
Clive Bell, 'a fathead and a voluptuary': Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity, Mark Hussey;
'I didn't know there could be such writing': The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence, Jodie Medd;
Virginia Woolf's Queer Time and Place: Wartime London and a World Aslant, Kimberly Engdahl Coates.

Modernism's Print Cultures

by Mark Hussey and Faye Hammill

_Modernism’s Print Cultures_ focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the ... more _Modernism’s Print Cultures_ focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the emerging discourse of print culture studies within the larger context of the New Modernist Studies. The scholarship discussed covers anglophone modernism from about 1890 to 1945 in Europe and the Atlantic world. Where appropriate, reference is also made to modernisms in languages other than English. ‘Print culture’ encompasses all printed forms, though the book is concerned primarily with magazine and book publishing. It draws on the disciplines of periodical studies and book history, and is organized into three chapters dealing with: sensuous, visual and material aspects of print; financial, advertising, and circulation issues in the literary marketplace; and political and educational projects. As well as discussing the sites and forms of production and circulation, an account is given of recent scholarship on editors, agents, publishers, writers, designers, and readers as they formed various print networks in the period covered. Contextual issues such as the impact of copyright and censorship are briefly considered. The transformation of print culture scholarship as a result of digitization projects is another theme. Terms such as bibliographic codes, media ecology, and print activism are explained, and the book provides a ‘Toolbox’ of print and digital resources for students, teachers and researchers.

To the Lighthouse

CUP edition of Virginia Woolf's BETWEEN THE ACTS

Virginia Woolf A to Z

The Singing of the Real World

Conference Presentations by Mark Hussey

Roundtable: Woolf and Violence

from _Virginia Woolf Writing the World_ 24th annual conference on Virginia Woolf

Woolf and the Falling Man

Book Reviews by Mark Hussey

articles by Mark Hussey

How Should One Read a Screen?

"Thoughts without words": silence, violence, and memorial in Woolf’s Late Works

"W. H. Day Spender" Had a Sister: Joan Adeney Easdale

Virginia Woolf: After Lives

Mrs Thatcher and Mrs Woolf

To the Lighthouse and Physics: The Cosmology of David Bohm and Virginia Woolf

book chapters by Mark Hussey

Clive Bell, 'a fathead and a voluptuary': Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity

Queer Bloomsbury, May 1, 2016

A Companion to Virginia Woolf, Mar 1, 2016

In the current incunabular state of digital humanities, making any survey, even the freest and lo... more In the current incunabular state of digital humanities, making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of the state of " digital Woolf " is fraught with risk. To commit words to paper that will be bound in a codex and read more than a year after they have been written inevitably courts irrelevance. The rapid development of digital tools, the ease with which individual scholars and students can publish their work online, and the rich conversations going on within the field of digital humanities (DH) about methods and practices all make pronouncements in print likely to be obsolete sooner than usual. Furthermore, perhaps more than would be true of other prominent issues within Woolf studies, an essay on " digital Woolf " might assume a large variety of aspects and emphases that can be viewed either negatively or positively depending on the writer's experience with and knowledge of digital tools and artifacts. A point of origin for digital Woolf is 1995, when many major publishers were anxious not to miss the next big thing – CD-ROMs. I spent a merry year tagging 13,000 pages of images scanned from microfilm of Woolf's holograph and typescript manuscripts, and hyperlinking relevant words and phrases in her fiction and non-fiction to my reference work Virginia Woolf A to Z (Hussey 1995). Unless you have failed to upgrade your operating system in the past decade, that CD-ROM is now unreadable (I have carefully preserved an antique desktop running Windows XP for the sole purpose of accessing Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf (1996)). Recently, I have been closely involved with Woolf Online, a large digital project devoted to To the Lighthouse. But my relation to technology is similar to that of most people's to their car: I know how to make it go and stop, and can perform a little routine maintenance, but I have A Companion to Virginia Woolf, First Edition. Edited by Jessica Berman.

The Context of Louise DeSalvo's 'Impact':Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography

Explains the emerging scholarship on incest and sexual abuse concurrent with the publication of D... more

Queer Bloomsbury, contributors

by Brenda S Helt and Mark Hussey

Table of Contents: Editors' Introduction, Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt; Part 1: Ground-break... more Table of Contents:
Editors' Introduction, Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt;

Part 1: Ground-breaking Essays;
Introduction to Carolyn Heilbrun's 'The Bloomsbury Group', 1968, Brenda R. Silver;
The Bloomsbury Group, Carolyn Heilbrun;
'Bloomsbury Bashing' Revisited; Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties, Christopher Reed;
'Camp Sites' Revisited; Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury, George Piggford;
'Redecorating the International Economy' Revisited; Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods [abridged], Bill Maurer;
Passionate Debates on 'Odious Subjects': Bisexuality and Woolf's Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity [abridged], Brenda Helt;

Part 2: New Essays;
The Bloomsbury Love Triangle, Regina Marler;
Duncan Grant and Charleston's Queer Arcadia, Darren Clarke;
Nailed: Lytton Strachey's Jesus Camp, Todd Avery;
‘[T]here were so many things I wanted to do & didn't’: The Queer Potential of Carrington's Life and Art, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina;
Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury's Wittgenstein, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. and Madelyn Detloff;
Deviant Desires and the Queering of Leonard Woolf, Elyse Blankley;
Clive Bell, 'a fathead and a voluptuary': Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity, Mark Hussey;
'I didn't know there could be such writing': The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence, Jodie Medd;
Virginia Woolf's Queer Time and Place: Wartime London and a World Aslant, Kimberly Engdahl Coates.

Modernism's Print Cultures

by Mark Hussey and Faye Hammill

_Modernism’s Print Cultures_ focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the ... more _Modernism’s Print Cultures_ focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the emerging discourse of print culture studies within the larger context of the New Modernist Studies. The scholarship discussed covers anglophone modernism from about 1890 to 1945 in Europe and the Atlantic world. Where appropriate, reference is also made to modernisms in languages other than English. ‘Print culture’ encompasses all printed forms, though the book is concerned primarily with magazine and book publishing. It draws on the disciplines of periodical studies and book history, and is organized into three chapters dealing with: sensuous, visual and material aspects of print; financial, advertising, and circulation issues in the literary marketplace; and political and educational projects. As well as discussing the sites and forms of production and circulation, an account is given of recent scholarship on editors, agents, publishers, writers, designers, and readers as they formed various print networks in the period covered. Contextual issues such as the impact of copyright and censorship are briefly considered. The transformation of print culture scholarship as a result of digitization projects is another theme. Terms such as bibliographic codes, media ecology, and print activism are explained, and the book provides a ‘Toolbox’ of print and digital resources for students, teachers and researchers.

To the Lighthouse

CUP edition of Virginia Woolf's BETWEEN THE ACTS

Virginia Woolf A to Z

The Singing of the Real World

Roundtable: Woolf and Violence

from _Virginia Woolf Writing the World_ 24th annual conference on Virginia Woolf

Woolf and the Falling Man

How Should One Read a Screen?

"Thoughts without words": silence, violence, and memorial in Woolf’s Late Works

"W. H. Day Spender" Had a Sister: Joan Adeney Easdale

Virginia Woolf: After Lives

Mrs Thatcher and Mrs Woolf

To the Lighthouse and Physics: The Cosmology of David Bohm and Virginia Woolf

Clive Bell, 'a fathead and a voluptuary': Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity

Queer Bloomsbury, May 1, 2016

A Companion to Virginia Woolf, Mar 1, 2016

In the current incunabular state of digital humanities, making any survey, even the freest and lo... more In the current incunabular state of digital humanities, making any survey, even the freest and loosest, of the state of " digital Woolf " is fraught with risk. To commit words to paper that will be bound in a codex and read more than a year after they have been written inevitably courts irrelevance. The rapid development of digital tools, the ease with which individual scholars and students can publish their work online, and the rich conversations going on within the field of digital humanities (DH) about methods and practices all make pronouncements in print likely to be obsolete sooner than usual. Furthermore, perhaps more than would be true of other prominent issues within Woolf studies, an essay on " digital Woolf " might assume a large variety of aspects and emphases that can be viewed either negatively or positively depending on the writer's experience with and knowledge of digital tools and artifacts. A point of origin for digital Woolf is 1995, when many major publishers were anxious not to miss the next big thing – CD-ROMs. I spent a merry year tagging 13,000 pages of images scanned from microfilm of Woolf's holograph and typescript manuscripts, and hyperlinking relevant words and phrases in her fiction and non-fiction to my reference work Virginia Woolf A to Z (Hussey 1995). Unless you have failed to upgrade your operating system in the past decade, that CD-ROM is now unreadable (I have carefully preserved an antique desktop running Windows XP for the sole purpose of accessing Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf (1996)). Recently, I have been closely involved with Woolf Online, a large digital project devoted to To the Lighthouse. But my relation to technology is similar to that of most people's to their car: I know how to make it go and stop, and can perform a little routine maintenance, but I have A Companion to Virginia Woolf, First Edition. Edited by Jessica Berman.

The Context of Louise DeSalvo's 'Impact':Incest in Virginia Woolf's Biography

Explains the emerging scholarship on incest and sexual abuse concurrent with the publication of D... more

The site is intended to serve as a resource for research and study of Woolf\u27s modernist classi... more The site is intended to serve as a resource for research and study of Woolf\u27s modernist classic. On this site you will find images and transcriptions of the holograph drafts (in three notebooks housed in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library), the typescripts, the proofs, and various early editions of the novel, including the first British and American editions and their variants. Also included is a wealth of contextual materials, such as diary entries and letters pertaining to the novel, early reviews of the novel, selected essays Woolf wrote during the two- year period during which she worked on To the Lighthouse, and photographs of the Stephen family, Cornwall, and Talland House, all of which inform the setting and characters of the novel. Because the three notebooks housed in the Berg Collection are fragile and access to them is now severely limited, Woolf Online performs an especially valuable service by making these drafts available to scholars, students and th...

Masculinities: interdisciplinary reading/ Hussey

xi, 395 hal.; 23 cm

On Being Ill: with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen

Clive Bell, ‘a fathead and a voluptuary’: Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity

Queer Bloomsbury, 2016

Hussey shows that Clive Bell was a lifelong rebel. His tireless championing of individual liberty... more Hussey shows that Clive Bell was a lifelong rebel. His tireless championing of individual liberty as the paramount value of political and social organisation, and of subjective experience as the proper basis for aesthetics pervades his writings on art, society, history and politics. He proselytized for the radically new art of the early twentieth century and for pacifism before and during the First World War. He excoriated the puritanical strictures of post-war England and its appeasement and adherence to untenable ideals in the late 1930s and Second World War. In his close identification with the conscientious objector issue, Bell, though heterosexual, is representative of queer Bloomsbury’s challenge to heteronormativity and the patriarchal family. As nationalist and homophobic rhetoric converged at war’s end, Bell’s writings deplored the lasting effects on British society of the government’s suppression of thought and expression during the war, including queer thought and homosexual expression.

On being ill . Notes from sick rooms

Roundtable: War and Violence

$Research paper thumbnail of Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction$

Refractions of Desire: The Early Fiction

Significant Form and Aesthetic Emotion

Secrets of Creativity, 2019

The early twentieth-century revolution in visual art that came to be known in England as post-imp... more The early twentieth-century revolution in visual art that came to be known in England as post-impressionism emphasized the view that artistic creativity resides not only in the making of the artwork, but also in the interaction between the artwork and the spectator, an orientation which the contemporary discipline of neuroaesthetics holds in our time. Clive Bell’s theory of “significant form” provided an approachable way for the British public to integrate their understanding of the new art into existing notions of art history and led to a severely diminished role for representation in visual art. Bell’s theory is identifiable as one manifestation of pervasive changes in the understanding of creativity and perception that were sweeping through Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bell could not say why certain combinations of lines and colors led to the experience of an “aesthetic emotion,” only that they did. Contemporary researchers in neuroaesthetics, such...

“Could I sue a dead person?”: Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, 2017

Despite their claims that they did not know one another very well, Woolf and Rebecca West maintai... more Despite their claims that they did not know one another very well, Woolf and Rebecca West maintained a wary regard for one another throughout their lifetimes. To Woolf, West was a “celebrity” and also a somewhat aggressive figure; to West, Woolf was a genius and also a mad woman. In 1982, Woolf was described in the Saturday Review as “the Marilyn Monroe of American academia,” while West was profiled as “the aged virago of English intellectuals” in the New York Times. By putting recent work on literary celebrity into dialogue with Brenda Silver’s earlier theorizing of Woolf’s “iconicity,” this paper asks how West went from being “Indisputably the world’s number 1 Woman Writer” (Time, 1947) to “little more than a famous name” (Mendelson 2000), and questions the value of celebrity to a woman writer. It argues that West and Woolf mutually missed the opportunity for a fruitful intimacy.

Virginia Woolf A to Z: a comprehensive reference for students, teachers and common readers to her life, work and critical reception

Choice Reviews Online, 1996

... Virginia Woolf A to Z: A comprehensive reference for students, teachers, and common readers t... more

Biographical approaches

Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies, 2007

The philosophy of Virginia Woolf

On being ill . Notes from sick rooms

Modernism’s Print Cultures

Modernism’s Print Cultures focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the em... more Modernism’s Print Cultures focuses on criticism published since the 1990s that exemplifies the emerging discourse of print culture studies within the larger context of the New Modernist Studies. The scholarship discussed covers anglophone modernism from about 1890 to 1945 in Europe and the Atlantic world. Where appropriate, reference is also made to modernisms in languages other than English. ‘Print culture’ encompasses all printed forms, though the book is concerned primarily with magazine and book publishing. It draws on the disciplines of periodical studies and book history, and is organized into three chapters dealing with: sensuous, visual and material aspects of print; financial, advertising, and circulation issues in the literary marketplace; and political and educational projects. As well as discussing the sites and forms of production and circulation, an account is given of recent scholarship on editors, agents, publishers, writers, designers, and readers as they formed various print networks in the period covered. Contextual issues such as the impact of copyright and censorship are briefly considered. The transformation of print culture scholarship as a result of digitization projects is another theme. Terms such as bibliographic codes, media ecology, and print activism are explained, and the book provides a ‘Toolbox’ of print and digital resources for students, teachers and researchers.

Virginia Woolf in Context, 2012

A Companion to Virginia Woolf, 2016

« Thoughts without words » : silence, violence et commémoration dans les dernières œuvres de Woolf

Le Tour Critique, Dec 3, 2013

Woolf and the Falling Man

Woolf and the City, 2010

Roundtable: Woolf and Violence

Virginia Woolf: Writing the World, 2015

from _Virginia Woolf Writing the World_ 24th annual conference on Virginia Woolf

Thoughts without words": silence, violence, and memorial in Woolf’s Late Works

Le Tour Critique, Apr 11, 2013