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[A] major contribution to Woolf studies and one which I found invaluable as a source of reference.--John Shapcott ""Arnold Bennett Society Newsletter"" As befits its companionable purpose, much of this hefty book retreads familiar ground and some essays reprise established scholarship. But Maggie Humm has done welcome work in gathering into one kaleidoscopic compendium these myriad sightings of Woolf ... Turn a kaleidoscope, and the same elements compose different designs; so many of these essays offer fresh discoveries, hypotheses, perspectives, and insights along with some wonderful images... Taken together, Humm's essayists provide a very companionable companion ... smart, wide-ranging, energetic, stimulating, fruitfully provocative. Newcomers to Woolf and Bloomsbury will find it a broad and friendly introduction to her multifarious engagement with ""the arts""; old timers too will find much to learn from and enjoy.-- ""Modernism/Modernity"" Maggie Humm's The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts achieves cohesiveness through expansiveness. Taking Woolf's engagement with the arts in the broadest sense as their theme, the twenty-five essays in this collection comprehensively explore this important aspect of Woolf's career.-- ""Years Work in English Studies, vol 91, no 1, 2012"" This book appears at a time when scholarly interest has travelled far down the many tributaries connecting Virginia Woolf to the cultural moment in which she lived and worked. No previous book, however, has attempted an overview of the significance of the arts to Woolf. Hence the need for this all encompassing endeavour. Its breadth of interest catches many topics, from gardens to the aesthetics of the city, from scrapbooks and journalism to dance, music, film, photography and the theatre. It is rich in overlap and fertile creative tensions. Its catholicity also embraces differing levels of debate and a range of methodologies. In some areas it summarises existing knowledge, in others it sets up new avenues of enquiry. But, as a whole, this is a richly variegated assortment of essays. It will, for a long time, remain a most useful compendium.--Frances Spalding, art historian, critic and biographer This generous collection of twenty-six essays on Woolf's relation to every conceivable aspect of the arts from philosophies of aesthetics to photography, film, and dance to entertaining, gardening, and scrapbooking looks like a useful reference text to have on one's shelf and/ or recommend for purchase by the local academic library. Further perusal, however, additionally reveals a lively series of conversations on the cutting edge of ongoing debates in Woolf scholarship whose relevance to many of the larger issues at play in the profession makes for entertaining and enlightening reading.-- ""Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 18, 2012"" The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts successfully relocates Woolf's literary output within her contemporary artistic and cultural contexts. This ambitious volume consolidates the return to aesthetics within recent Woolf scholarship and demonstrates the breadth of approaches now encompassed within this fruitful area of enquiry.--Alice Wood, University of Portsmouth ""Women's History Review"" Editor Maggie Humm and colleagues can certainly be congratulated on succeeding in this exhaustive and groundbreaking task! Almost every book, essay and autobiographical detail of the author have been seamlessly bound together with the broadest definition of art, from script to screen, page to performance - making the Edinburgh Companion an invaluable resource for the ""common reader"" and students of art alike ... Scholars of art, literature, gender studies, film, modernism and - of course - Virginia Woolf herself will find the essays in the Edinburgh Companion of considerable interest and appeal at every level.'--Sarah Powell, Bradford Library The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts gathers a stellar group of scholars to exemplify the range and depth of Woolf's engagement with the arts. This remarkable collection shows that whether engaged with music, painting, dance, cinema, fashion, photography, decoration or entertaining, Woolf stands at the heart of the dynamism and innovations of twentieth-century aesthetics. The Companion will be a rich and provocative resource for anyone with an interest in modern culture.--Mark Hussey, Editor, Woolf Studies Annual

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Maggie Humm is Professor Emerita of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of East London. She is the author of many books including Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (Tate Publishing & Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema (Edinburgh University Press & Rutgers University Press 2002). She is currently Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

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