Seeley, Tracy, Joy Catstro, Marcia Aldrich, and Jocelyn Bartkevicius. Modernist Nonfiction: Virginia Woolf and Her Contemporaries. AWP (Association of Writers and Writers Programs) Conference. Chicago, 2012.
This panel at AWP featured scholarly papers presented on four different modernist nonfiction writers: Virginia Woolf, Alice Meynell, Margery Latimer, and Meridel LeSueur. Even though Virginia Woolf is best known for both her fiction and her argumentative essay "A Room of One's Own," she was actually a propagator and writer of lyrical (personal) essays. Alice Meynell was also an essayist (see my annotation of her collection of essays), and one panelist discussed her contribution to the essay canon even though many of her essays didn't seem very personal upfront. This panel was helpful because it discussed what modernist writers have contributed to creative nonfiction, and I was able to see how their discussion can inform my own analysis of Virginia Woolf and Alice Meynell's writing. The panelist presenting on Virginia Woolf mentioned that her dissertation adviser was shocked that she was writing her dissertation on Virginia Woolf without looking at her fiction--the fact scholars don't hold Woolf's personal essays in high esteem is troubling. But as more scholars emphasize the value of her essays, the more people will become familiar with her contribution to creative nonfiction. Vamos arriba!
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