Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin
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.
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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.
Introduction Reading Virginia Woolf in Constellation with Walter Benjamin 11 Modernity, Modernism and the Past 18Definitions of modernity 18Benjamin and modernity 25Woolf, modernism and the past 302 Theories of History, Models of Historiography 37History and historiography 37Woolf on history: influences and differences 41Benjamin's philosophy of history 503 Antiquity and Modernity: Jacob's Room and the 'Greek Myth' 604 Historical Fictions, Fictional Fashions and Time: Orlando as the 'Angel of History' 755 Natural History and Historical Nature in To the Lighthouse and Other Fiction 966 Dreaming, History and the Visions of the Obscure in The Years 1147 This Stage of History: Between the Acts and theDestruction of Tradition 1388 A 'Common History': Anonymous ArtistsCommunal Collectivities 162Notes 177Bibliography 215Index 228
