Virginia Woolf, modernity and history
Subtitle: constellations with Walter Benjamin
By: Angeliki Spiropoulou.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230537583
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Historiography; Benjamin, Walter, -- 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; History in literature; History -- Philosophy; Modernism (Aesthetics)
Description: "This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Theories of Modernity Models of HistoriograhyAntiquity and Modernity: Jacob's Room and the 'Greek myth'Historical Fictions and Fictional History in OrlandoNatural History and Historical Nature in To the Lighthouse and other fictionDreaming and History: The vision of the obscure in Mrs Dalloway and The YearsThis Stage of History: Between the Acts and the Destruction of TraditionA 'Common History': Anonymous Artists, Communal CollectivitiesBibliographyIndex.