Anna Snaith

Anna Snaith is a scholar of modernist literature whose research centers on Virginia Woolf, women’s writing, sound, empire, and literary networks. Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies is the 2007 critical collection she edited for Palgrave Macmillan. Snaith contributes the introduction and brings together essays on narratology, modernism, biography, feminism, bibliography, psychoanalysis, historicism, postcolonial criticism, and European reception. Contributors include Melba Cuddy-Keane, Jane Goldman, Mark Hussey, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Edward Bishop, and Jeanette McVicker. The volume is designed as a guide to major approaches rather than a single interpretation of Woolf, showing how theoretical traditions overlap and disagree. Snaith’s own scholarship includes Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations and work on modernist broadcasting and colonial culture. Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies reflects that breadth by placing Woolf’s novels, essays, diaries, and public contexts within an evolving field of criticism. The result surveys earlier scholarship while mapping routes for further study.