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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:Approx. 240 p online resource
ISBN:9780230250444