‘Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History’ —Introduction

To give a history to a species, a population of human beings or a social category is necessarily a political gesture. Throughout her career Virginia Woolf was preoccupied with this gesture and with the cultural and political issues that it implies. As we celebrate the centenary of the publication o...

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主要な著者: Besnault, Anne, Smith-Di Biasio, Anne-Marie, Laniel, Marie
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Anglais
出版事項: Études britanniques contemporaines 2025
オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:To give a history to a species, a population of human beings or a social category is necessarily a political gesture. Throughout her career Virginia Woolf was preoccupied with this gesture and with the cultural and political issues that it implies. As we celebrate the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway the ‘action’ of which takes place on a day in June 1923, five years after the end of the First World War, it is only right to place its author in the long genealogy of those who have...