Virginia Woolf, modernity and history

By Angeliki Spiropoulou

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

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.