Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History
Author | : Angeliki Spiropoulou |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-03-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230250444 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230250440 |
Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Download or read book Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History written by Angeliki Spiropoulou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity.