... contexts―the authors Anne Carson and Virginia Woolf, and theatrical stagings of the Melian Dialogue (even as an immersive interactive experience)―to suggest that these may in fact be a truer reflection of some aspects of the Thucydidean project. Thucydides Melian Dialogue translation Virginia Woolf...

...’ scenes retain a semblance of subjectivity, upon which Woolf’s idiosyncratic realist mode depends. Reading Woolf alongside Berkeley, I develop a case study in the ways in which literary aesthetics can take up, and also challenge, philosophical theories of knowledge. Virginia Woolf George Berkeley...

... proclaimed by Marinetti and the Futurists. In conclusion I turn to Virginia Woolf’s The Waves where we find that her usual scepticism is tempered by a jubilant grasp of the ‘mud-stained’ real. Modernism mud metaphysics newness materialism scepticism Franz Kafka Wyndham Lewis Stéphane...

..., particularly those associated with a writer’s private, domestic life, were important aspects of literary celebrity culture and commemoration, and both the Brontë Society and the original Brontë Museum were established to collect material remains. Yet when Virginia Woolf visited the museum in 1904, she viewed...

...“Afterword: Adulterated Verse, the Modernist Remix,” reflects on the legacy of the Victorian verse-novel by addressing the genre’s substantial influence on modernist fiction. Circling back to the beginning, the Afterword considers Virginia Woolf’s response to Aurora Leigh in her...

...This chapter discusses the challenges faced by informal caregivers as seen in the film The Hours (2002). The film follows a day in the life of three women united by the thread of Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novel Mrs. Dalloway. The chapter focuses...

...This chapter examines the evolving status of character in modernism in light of film’s evacuation of psychological depth. It approaches this topic through the work of Virginia Woolf—modernism’s most vocal exponent of interiority. Placing Woolf’s many comments on film alongside her increasingly...

...Figure 5.1. Regent’s Park underground station entrance, 1921 Figure 5.2. Eduard Lassen (1830–1904), ‘All Souls Day’ (‘Allerseelen’), Op. 85, no. 3, in All Souls Day and Resolution: Songs (London: Bosworth & Co., 1899) In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway...

... and Virginia Woolf. It illuminates Woolf's own compositional processes and throws light on the stance and influence of the magazine and its reviewers, particularly with regard to women's fiction and gender politics. As well as pointing up its editorial stance, the spat between Woolf and Life...

... and the poet and novelist H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) set the stage for a discussion of Freudian psychoanalysis, the scholarly theories of Jane Harrison, and the works of James Joyce, H.D., Mary Butts, Naomi Mitchison, and Virginia Woolf. The practice of archaeology and the knowledge of Greek emerge as key elements...

...Chapter Four maps a feminist geography grounded in the collaborations between Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf. It takes as its point of departure Woolf’s plan to “fight… English tyranny” in response to the death of beloved nephew Julian Bell in the Spanish war. She attempts to illuminate...

.... And second, that the forms of parenthood have been changing fast: new stories are emerging all the time. Parenthood is often now imagined as a mode of personal fulfilment—and in that sense the title A Child of One's Own does take over from Virginia Woolf's focus on the literary creativity...

...Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) described being haunted by her in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, this book explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection...

...Virginia Woolf’s phrase ‘the queerest sense of echo’ used to describe her relationship with Katherine Mansfield indicates her own awareness of recognising Mansfield as the foreigner within, other but familiar, both frightening in her alien similarity and reassuring in her capacity to understand...

... and Virginia Woolf, beginning with works that they wrote before they met and read each other’s writing, The Urewera Notebook, ‘The Woman at the Store’, ‘The Wind Blows’, and The Voyage Out, and then looking at the thematically similar stories they produced at the time when...

...In an article written in 1927 for the Dial, a Chicago magazine which published fiction by Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, the American poet Conrad Aitken observes that, in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Woolf writes ‘as if she never...

...During the time that she was writing Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf was involved in the most intense phase of her friendship with Katherine Mansfield. In an entry in her diary where she says that she is planning to begin the book in the following week, she remarks, ‘I can wince...

... to Spain, participation in two of Desjardins' décades at Pontigny, a visit from Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and return to London. Her relationship with Mirrlees is discussed and the rumour of lesbianism refuted. It touches on her Epilegomena, in which she gathers together...

... such as Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf were crafting characters intimately connected by the prosody of voice, music, and the soundscape. As headphones piped nonlocal sounds into a listener’s headspace, Jean Rhys and James Joyce were creating interior monologues that were shaped by cosmopolitan and bohemian...