Title: Virginia Woolf, modernity and history
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.
Subjects: Historiography, History in literature, Knowledge, Philosophy, Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Aesthetics), History, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940, Modernism (literature), English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Philosophy, german, Knowledge and learning