Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin

Spiropoulou, Angeliki

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-03-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230537583

DOI: 10.1057/9780230250444

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240