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 Orlando A Room of One s Own The Waves Flush and Sketch of the Past he details the fresh insights Woolf provides into issues concerning the natural world sexual difference sexuality animality and life itself Ryan opens up Woolf studies to new theoretical paradigms by placing Woolf in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze who cites her modernist aesthetics as exemplary of some of his most important philosophical concepts as well as eminent contemporary theorists including Rosi Braidotti Donna Haraway Karen Barad and Jane Bennett all of whom have influenced the recent critical turn towards new materialisms Locating theory within Woolf s writing as well as locating Woolf within theory Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory Sex Animal Life brings her modernism firmly into to the foreground of current debates in literary studies feminist philosophy queer theory animal studies and posthumanities

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