Virginia Woolf, modernity and history
"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.
HistoriographyHistory in literatureKnowledgePhilosophyCriticism and interpretationModernism (Aesthetics)HistoryWoolf, virginia, 1882-1941Benjamin, walter, 1892-1940Modernism (literature)English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryEnglish literature, history and criticism, 20th century