Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: The Reception of Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Writing in Estonia
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: The Reception of Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Writing in Estonia

Summary/Abstract: There are few authors whose critical reception has undergone such a dramatic shift as Virginia Woolf’s who has been transformed from a minor modernist stylist into a feminist figurehead and pioneer of gender subversion in the past fifty years (e.g., cf. Allen 1954: 351 and Marcus 1981 or Bowlby 1997). By now, her oeuvre and life have spawned something of a Woolf industry that the author, with her ambivalent attitude towards public recognition and a fear of “settling into a figure” (Luckhurst 2002: 2), would probably have been critical of. Nowadays accepted into the most stringent versions of the Western canon by critics as conservative as Harold Bloom (1994: 403–415), Woolf is one of the few modernists who are being read by scholars as well as by “common readers” all over the world, even reaching nearbestseller status and Hollywood re-imagining (Daldry 2002).

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