‘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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description 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...
author Besnault, Anne
Smith-Di Biasio, Anne-Marie
Laniel, Marie
spellingShingle Besnault, Anne
Smith-Di Biasio, Anne-Marie
Laniel, Marie
‘Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History’ —Introduction
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