Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History : Constellations with Walter Benjamin /

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 o...

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Main Author: Spiropoulou, Angeliki (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 240 pages)
ISBN:9780230250444
DOI:10.1057/9780230250444