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, communcal collectivities.
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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"--Provided by publisher.
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