Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin

Title	Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin
Publication Type	Book
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Spiropoulou, Angeliki
Refereed Designation	Refereed
Publisher	Palgrave-Macmillan
City	London, New York
ISBN	978-0-230-53758-3
Keywords	modernism, philosophy of history, theory of modernity, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin
Abstract	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. Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in Constellation with Walter Benjamin Modernity, Modernism and the Past Theories of History, Models of Historiography Antiquity and Modernity: Jacob’s Room and the ‘Greek Myth’ Historical Fictions, Fictional Fashions and Time: Orlando as the ‘Angel of History’ Natural History and Historical Nature in To the Lighthouse and Other Fiction Dreaming, History and the Visions of the Obscure in The Years This Stage of History: Between the Acts and the Destruction of Tradition A ‘Common History’: Anonymous Artists, Communal Collectivities Notes Bibliography Index
URL	http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=281094;http://us.macmillan.com/author/angelikispiropoulou

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