Virginia Woolfs Unwritten Histories

Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf's modernism, feminism, and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual.

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Anne Besnault is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen and the Vice president of the French Virginia Woolf Society (SEW). In 1997, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation "The Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen" at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honours. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes réunis et édités par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (2014) and Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide : Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature and the Visual Arts (Routledge, 2018).

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Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf's modernism, feminism, and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: "Historians' Histories" and Woolf's New Historiography

Chapter 1: Prescribed Books and the Possibilities of Knowledge: Making Sense of Tradition

Chapter 2: History's Readability: Woolf and Romantic Historiography

Chapter 3: Rewriting History: Creating Contexts for Change

Chapter 4: "Why?": The 1930s and History in the Present

Part II: Virginia Woolf's Unwritten Literary Histories

Chapter 5: The Critic as Historiographer: Blurring Illusory Boundaries

Chapter 6: Literary History as a Laboratory: Practices of Knowledge

Chapter 7: Virginia Woolf, Fiction and the "Woman Question"

Chapter 8: Our Perfect and Imperfect Mothers: Woolf's Nineteenth-Century Counter-Narratives

Bibliography

Index