Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy

Abstract

In “Virginia Woolf and Mina Loy: Modernist Affiliations,” Erica Gene Delsandro encourages feminist modernist scholars to imagine beyond the male-dominated story of modernism by challenging iconicity and canonicity through her reading of Woolf and Loy. By focusing on two modernist women writers who are rarely studied in tandem, this chapter proposes alternative ways of reading that privilege affiliations and resonances, tracing modernist motifs throughout Woolf’s and Loy’s writing. In so doing, Delsandro advocates for more inclusive and expansive reading practices that invite feminist modernists to remake modernism in their scholarship and in their classrooms.