Review of Jeanne Dubino, ed., Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Book review: The marketplace has become a fashionable area for literary studies, especially when analysing modernist authors, one important factor being ‘the emergence of “periodical studies” as a critical subgenre within modernist studies’ (p. 151). This volume, edited by Jeanne Dubino, comprises fifteen essays which purportedly address the subject of Virginia Woolf’s involvement with all aspects of the marketplace as commodity culture.