LEADER 04805nam 22007095 450 001 9911054606303321 005 20260108120415.0 010 $a3-032-10816-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-10816-6 035 $a(CKB)44911540800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32478515 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32478515 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-10816-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9944911540800041 100 $a20260108d2026 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book /$fby Olivia Badoi 205 $a1st ed. 2026. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (168 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies 311 08$a3-032-10815-2 327 $aIntroduction: Arboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book -- Chapter 1: A Feeling for Wood Itself: Lynd Ward's Arboreal Modernism and the Politics of Wood -- Chapter 2: A Sisterly Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and the Woodcut -- Chapter 3: Words Like Birds: Helen West Heller's Woodcut Poetry -- Chapter 4: Weaving Resistance: Helena Bocho?áková-Dittrichová's Wordless Narratives -- Epilogue: Still Seeking Light in Darkness: Drooker, Kuper, and the Woodcut Legacy -- Conclusion: The Living Legacy of Arboreal Modernism. 330 $a?In addition to bringing needed attention to the tradition of modernist woodcut artists, including the previously overlooked Vanessa Bell, Helen West Heller, and Helena Bocho?áková-Dittrichová, Badoi fills a broader gap in interdisciplinary scholarship by bridging literary criticism, art history, and comics studies to reveal and explore the rich middle-ground between them.? ?Chris Gavaler, Professor of English, Washington and Lee University, USA This book reveals how modernist artists across Europe and the United States turned to trees and wooden materials as both subject and medium to reimagine human relationships with the natural world. In an era of accelerating industrialization, these artists made the seemingly anachronistic choice to work with wood?creating handcrafted books that challenged the alienation of modern life through their very materiality. Arboreal Modernism examines the transnational phenomenon of woodcut modernism through pioneering artists including Lynd Ward, whose anti-racist and anti-capitalist narratives used trees as witnesses to violence and models for social interconnection; Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, whose collaborative woodcut projects at the Hogarth Press challenged boundaries between text and image; Helen West Heller, the first artist to carve both word and image from the same woodblock in her innovative poetry; and Helena Bocho?áková-Dittrichová, whose wordless narratives critiqued colonialism while envisioning alternative futures led by women. The book also traces this tradition's contemporary legacy through artists Eric Drooker and Peter Kuper. Through close analysis, Badoi demonstrates how the woodcut book served as both artistic innovation and political intervention, using the ancient technique of woodcutting to address modern concerns about ecology, community, and social justice. This study recovers an overlooked dimension of modernist experimentation while offering insights relevant to our current environmental crisis. Olivia Badoi?is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University-Madrid, Spain, where she teaches courses in literature and academic writing. . 410 0$aLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aEconomics and literature 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aPrinting 606 $aPublishers and publishing 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterature Business 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aPrinting and Publishing 606 $aHistory of the Book 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEconomics and literature. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aPrinting. 615 0$aPublishers and publishing. 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 14$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterature Business. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aPrinting and Publishing. 615 24$aHistory of the Book. 676 $a809.05 700 $aBadoi$b Olivia$01889431 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911054606303321 996 $aArboreal Modernism and the Woodcut Book$94529769 997 $aUNINA